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Maurice Blanchot is among the most important twentieth-century French thinkers. Figures such as Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, and Levinas all draw deeply on his novels and writings on literature and philosophy. In , Kevin Hart argues that Blanchot has given us the most persuasive account of what we must give upwhether it be continuity, selfhood, absolute truth, totality, or unityif God is, indeed, dead. Looking at Blanchots oeuvre as a whole, Hart shows that this erstwhile atheist paradoxically had an abiding fascination with mystical experiences and the notion of the sacred.