Abstract
Since Descartes' cogito-based subject construction, the subject has operated within the framework of self-identity and the mine-ness of experience. Henceforth, the subject has built a complicated "prison of the self" with means such as understanding, representation and practical activities. In this prison, the "I" can only encounter other individuals or objects through the perception and reason of the "I", which means that the "I" can only encounter with "the self of the 'I'". By analyzing death, literature and the other, Blanchot revealed that there is a dimension of I-less embedded in the self of the "I," and that the subject is faced with a state of the dying of the subjecthood. This state about the subject becomes Blanchot's chance to break "the prison of the self" and get to the outside.
First Page
211
Last Page
216
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Lingling. 2013. "Out of "the Prison of the Self": Maurice Blanchot on Death, Literature and "The Other"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (4): pp.211-216. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss4/18
