In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes--community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning--as part of a deep and mature appreciation of the fact that we are richly, joyfully,...
Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul.
Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul.
Is there a "world" anymore, let alone any "sense" to it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our time, and the lack of a world at the center of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a rigorous critique of the many discourses-from...
Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a form of address: "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." There is no message without there first...
A study of the role of language in the critical philosophy of Kant. It demonstrates the continued importance of reflection on the relation between philosophy and literature.
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit--notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy...
How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"--all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the...
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Crisy conference entitled The Autobiographical Animal, the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was...
If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and...
Presents a collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, that delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. This book represents a mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays,...
This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heideggerâs Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this...