Abstract

     The Future of Writing The article, taking up the question of 'philosophy - literature' once more, asks: what writing is possible at the limit of philosophy? If philosophy is seen to have realized its utmost possibility in Hegel where it also announces its own finitude, literature would then be the very limit-concept in relation to philosophy. The question is not the abandonment of one in favor of another but to respond to the double requirements that are incommensurable to each other. The article investigates the place of language and writing - in philosophical discourse and literature -- in relation to temporality to interrogate Hegelian determination of language understood as becoming of Sense, in its intimate relation to the dialectical determination of temporality as negativity and thereby, with the help of Blanchot's writings, to point towards thinking of language as essentially prayer at the limit of language, beyond the dialectical determination of sense, and as such is opened to the two fold attunements of melancholy and hope for the future, opened to the hope for redemption and intimated with mournfulness for what is lost without memory. There lies, in this messianic hope for redemption in the coming, the future of writing