What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences moments of change and interruption categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature s approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events?
Ilai Rowner s study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger,...