Taking an interest in literature, Foucault was an avid reader of the book reviews authored by the philosopher Maurice Blanchot ( 1907 – 2003 ), which were published in the Nouvelle Revue Française.

The main intellectual biography of Blanchot is by Christophe Bident: Maurice Blanchot, partenaire invisible.

There is no dispute that Blanchot was nevertheless the author of a series of violently polemical articles attacking the government of the day and its confidence in the politics of the League of Nations, and warned persistently against the threat to peace in Europe posed by Nazi Germany.

In June 1944, Blanchot was almost executed by a Nazi firing squad ( as recounted in his text The Instant of My Death ).

* Maurice Blanchot at 100 by Pierre Joris, one of Blanchot's English translators ( he translated " The Unavowable Community ")

The Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne ( BIVB ) does recognize La Moutonne, but the seven Grand Cru vineyards officially recognized by the INAO are ( from northwest to southeast ): Bougros, Les Preuses, Vaudésir, Grenouilles, Valmur, Les Clos and Blanchot.

His early work was praised by eminent critics, such as Roland Barthes and Maurice Blanchot.

Hart's analysis on Blanchot was praised by Peter Craven as combining " an attractive expository technique with an openness to speculative ideas ".

Derrida's philosophical friends, allies, and students included Paul de Man, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sarah Kofman, Hélène Cixous, Bernard Stiegler, Alexander García Düttmann, Joseph Cohen, Geoffrey Bennington, Jean-Luc Marion, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Raphael Zagury-Orly, Jacques Ehrmann, Avital Ronell, Samuel Weber and Catherine Malabou.

Authors and collaborators include Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cayrol, Jean-Pierre Faye, Julia Kristeva, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Marcelin Pleynet, Maurice Roche, Philippe Sollers, Tzvetan Todorov, Francis Ponge, Umberto Eco, Gérard Genette, Pierre Boulez, Pierre Guyotat, Severo Sarduy, and Shoshana Felman.

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Stile Project, which won a Webby Award in 2000 for Weird site and was a People's Voice winner, evolved into a website with a lot of pornographic and extreme material ; Wired referred to the website as a " shock site " in a 2001 article.

Revisiting the film in his 1976 article " Fashions in Pornography " for Harper's Magazine, Stephen Koch found its sadistic violence to be extreme and unimaginative.

This article had the effect of worsening the demonstrations by angering its leaders, who then made their demands more extreme.

A summary of historically important publications relating to extreme values theory can be found on the article List of publications in statistics.

In October 2000, David Brooks remarked in a Weekly Standard article that Benjamin Franklin-due to his extreme wealth, cosmopolitanism, and adventurous social life-is " Our Founding Yuppie ".

CESNUR ’ s president Massimo Introvigne writes in his article " So many evil things: Anti-cult terrorism via the Internet " that fringe and extreme anti-cult activism resorts to tactics that may create a background favorable to extreme manifestations of discrimination and hate against individuals that belong to new religious movements.

On 24 February 1991, The Observer ran a lengthy article entitled " Far Right takes over the Monday Club ", stating that a number of senior members had tendered their resignations in protest at the Club's " takeover " by " extreme right-wingers ", some of whom were associated with the Western Goals Institute.

In a 1934 article, Anne Geddes Gilchrist suggested that the performer Ross heard played the song with extreme rubato, causing Ross to mistake the time signature of the piece for common time ( 4 / 4 ) rather than 3 / 4.

The chair is of extreme antiquity and simplicity, although for many centuries it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use.

Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency to " cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials ... On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance.

The incident was described as " an extreme source of embarrassment " for the SDF ; the public were more amused than outraged by the article, and even some of Yanai's colleagues anonymously referred to him as a " crackpot ".

In 2004 Max Boot described CounterPunch as an " extreme " " conspiracy-mongering website ", citing a 2003 article by Dave Lindorff comparing George W. Bush to Hitler.

Indeed, in a 2005 article, E. O. Wilson argued that kin selection could no longer be thought of as underlying the evolution of extreme sociality, for two reasons.

In their article, they noted that " Big-city cabs don't see many cold start-ups or long periods of high-speed driving in extreme heat.

A 1981 article in the New York Times cites two psychiatrists who examined Greenberg's self-description in the book and concluded that she was not schizophrenic, but suffered from extreme depression and somatization disorder.

* British store employee Jan Waicek was quoted in the May 2000 issue of Maxim magazine, in an article titled, " Hardest of the Hardcore " which examined various items with extreme statistics or traits (" Hardest Dinosaur, " Hardest Natural Disaster ", " Hardest Aircraft ", etc .).

" An article in Time magazine said that Emanuel " was only addressing extreme cases like organ donation, where there is an absolute scarcity of resources ", and quoted Emanuel as saying, "' My quotes were just being taken out of context.

" However, the Commission ruled that overall, " the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature, as defined by the Supreme Court.

In a January 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, veteran cold-war policy makers Henry Kissinger, Bill Perry, George Shultz and Sam Nunn reversed their previous position and asserted that far from making the world safer, nuclear weapons had become a source of extreme risk.

This article describes extreme locations on Earth.

This article discusses the extreme points of New Zealand: the points that lie farther north, south, east or west than any other equivalent location in the country.

Inherent in this example is that for this product's application, the 12 mm dimension does not require extreme accuracy, but the desired fit between the parts does require good precision ( see the article on accuracy and precision ).

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

Placing missiles in submarines, on barges, railroads, highways, surface vessels and in the air provides them with passive protection by taking advantage of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic missiles today -- the extreme difficulty of destroying a mobile or moving target with such weapons.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.

The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme `` culture-Protestantism '' so often observed to characterize the preaching and teaching of the American churches.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

He saw her emerge suddenly, coming in her unhesitant fashion, her back stiff, her head erect, facing with contempt the night and whatever she would encounter, as if in her extreme disdain and indifference she would pass by all the outraged looks of those whom she might approach.

The Alps were formed over hundreds of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided ; the extreme compression caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentation rising and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.

Her time spent at the many locations featured in her books is very apparent by the extreme detail in which she describes them.

Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

These steels were of poor quality, and the introduction of pattern welding, around the 1st century AD, sought to balance the extreme properties of the alloys by laminating them, to create a tougher metal.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

At the opposite extreme, a transformation of a thermodynamic system can be considered isothermal if it is slow enough so that the system's temperature remains constant by heat exchange with the outside.

Certain stones, when examined in thin sections by transmitted light, show a diffraction spectrum due to the extreme delicacy of the successive bands, whence they are termed rainbow agates.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

She also alienated the army by extreme parsimony, and neither she nor her son were strong enough to impose military discipline.

by the Atlas range, to the northeast a rocky plateau separates it from the Mediterranean ; this plateau gives place at the extreme east to the delta of the Nile.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

The United States ' regional cuisines are characterized by its extreme diversity and style with each region having its own distinctive cuisine.