Christopher Fynsk is Director of the Centre for Modern Thought and Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities; Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin; Language and Relation: . . . that there is language; and Heidegger: Thought and Historicity.

Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writings addresses the later works of the influential French writer and theorist, Maurice Blanchot. It offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of Blanchot's important writings of the post-war period and a chapter on the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. It follows Blanchot's attempt to expose the grounds of human relation through some of the most ground-breaking literary and philosophical explorations of the 20th century.