Inexorable fidelity: Blanchot, Heidegger e Derrida

Starting with a personal letter, sent by Maurice Blanchot to Jacques Derrida, this essay attempts to track the topics of correspondence, distance and transmission of ideas in the contemporary critical thought. It also argues that the exchange of letters is now a branch of Philosophy - as demonstrated by the works of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Peter Sloterdijk examined in the text. This whole scenario unfolds, since its opening lines, under the sign of Blanchotian thought about reading of time and tradition. Such reflection echoes finally in a theory of community conceived as a space for debate and epistemological mobility.