Christopher Fynsk. Blanchot’s Madness of the Day, Death, Sovereignty and Refusal of the Order. 2012

Christopher Fynsk, contemporary philosopher analyses Maurice Blanchot’s Madness of the Day within the concepts of death, sovereignty and refusal, and he is referencing to Foucault, Descartes, Levinas, Derrida, Bataille, Lacan, Freud, Oedipus and Jocasta and again Blanchot’s other texts The Writing of the Disaster and Discourse on Patience. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012 Christopher Fynsk. Christopher Fynsk has been the Director of the Centre for Modern Thought as well as the head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. He also currently holds the Maurice Blanchot Chair for Continental Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Previously he taught at SUNY Binghamton where he was co-director and founder of the Philosophy, Literature and Theory of Criticism department.