Charles-Saget, Annick

Negative Theology in Plotinus and Neutral in Blanchot - 2013.


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Nowadays, Blanchot and Foucault try to bring out neutral thinking,i.e., neither subjective nor objective. Foucault uses, as an analogue, the negative theology of Pseudo-Denys. Blanchot insists on our debt to the Greek language, which has the neutral article too. For us, those negatives pathways, of which one belongs to language and the other to philosophy, converge best in Plotinus' thought. Therefore, we try to compare two forces of negation, the neutral of Blanchot and the apeiron in Plotinus: what is the difference in the space that opens the pathways for us?