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Series: Critical Century
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In a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui—the perpetual insurgent—composed Eternity By the Stars in 1871, imprisoned in the sea fortress of Fort du Taureau. From within his cell, Blanqui arrives at a stark and devastating proposition: given...
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At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui’s text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting.
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In a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui—the perpetual insurgent—composed Eternity By the Stars in 1871, imprisoned in the sea fortress of Fort du Taureau. From within his cell, Blanqui arrives at a stark and devastating proposition: given infinite time and a finite number of possible configurations, every event must recur, again and again, without end. Each life is lived an infinity of times across the expanse of the universe; nothing is ever concluded, nothing ever redeemed. History itself becomes a vast mechanism of repetition, indifferent to hope or despair.
At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui's text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting. This critical edition presents the work in a new English translation, with an extended introduction by Frank Chouraqui, situating Blanqui within a wider constellation of thought from Friedrich Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin and Jorge Luis Borges, and tracing the afterlife of a text that continues to unsettle our understanding of time, action, and the modern condition.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781971559353
Publisher: ERIS
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 July 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: ERIS
Edition: New Edition
Contributors:
- Introduction by Frank Chouraqui
- Translated by Frank Chouraqui
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 121.0mm
Height: 191.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 222
About the Author
Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881) was one of the most relentless and enigmatic figures of nineteenth-century radical politics. A lifelong conspirator against monarchy, empire, and bourgeois republic alike, he spent more than three decades in prison for his role in successive uprisings—from the July Revolution to the aftermath of the Paris Commune, during which he was again incarcerated and thus absent from the insurrection he helped inspire. Unlike Marx, he left no systematic doctrine; his influence lay instead in the idea of a disciplined revolutionary vanguard and in the force of his example: intransigent, austere, and wholly committed to the overthrow of existing order. Written in captivity in 1871, Eternity by the Stars reveals a different Blanqui—at once lucid and visionary—extending his revolt beyond politics into the very structure of the universe.
Frank Chouraqui is a Senior University Lecturer of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. He is the author of Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth (FUP: 2014) and numerous articles on Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty. He is the editor and translator of Louis-Auguste Blanqui: Eternity by the Stars.
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