Fragment as the Eternal Recurrence; Time and Non-dialectical Writing in Blanchot’s Reading of Nietzschee

Maurice Blanchot proposes fragmentary writing as a way of thinking/writing that essentially indicates incompletion as well as a rupture from totality. He believes that fragmentation emerges in the form of an imperative that not only affirms finitude but also reflects the infinite openness of thought and writing, apart from systematic or dialectical thought. Understanding the importance of fragmentary writing as an exigency which emerges after the completion of the systematic thought’s energies, may depend on a special reading of history that rests on return and recurrence rather than development or accomplishment. By introducing the doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence along with the Overman, Nietzsche, also committing to the fragmentary space, images a world in which man faces with finitude and to affirm it is the only way to pass by nihilism. By analyzing the role and characteristics of fragment in Blanchot’s thought, this study tries to read it along with the doctrine of the eternal recurrence, in order to discuss the exigency of fragmentary writing facing with the thought of the Whole and the need to affirm finitude.