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      Exhausted literature: work, action, and the dilemmas of literary commitment

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      Author
      Just, D.
      Date
      2013
      Source Title
      Philosophy and Literature
      Print ISSN
      0190-0013
      Publisher
      The Johns Hopkins University Press
      Volume
      37
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      291 - 313
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article examines Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of committed literature as a manifestation of the tendency in Western modernity of conceiving literature as a form of praxis anchored in work. Discussing an alternative idea of engagement formulated by Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, and Albert Camus, the essay develops a notion of exhausted literature that questions the prioritization of work and action in predominant models of commitment. Exhaustion is proposed as a politically and ethically motivated literary strategy of suspending the group-forming morality which, as a product of modern valorization of work and action, has accompanied literature of verisimilitude, activity, and oriented time. © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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      https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2013.0018
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