In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, ecouter, as opposed to entendre, which means both hearing and understanding? Unlike the ...
This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed some of the icons of the 20th century, those few people among millions whose images will pass into history. "Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits" is a dazzling selection of Cartier-Bresson's most memorable portraits, including such diverse personalities as Pablo Picasso, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, ...
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 being - or, more subtly, without there also being in the message itself - an address to a capacity or an ...
Why is it that the modern conception of literature begins with one of the worst writers of the philosophical tradition? Such is the paradoxical question that lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Nancy's highly original and now-classic study of the role of language in the critical philosophy of Kant. While Kant did not turn his attention very often to the ...
This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy. Finding its guiding motives in Kant's second Critique and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger and Adorno, this book marks the most advanced position in the thinking of freedom that has been ...
This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his own. With theoretical rigor, Nancy elaborates on the ...
The relationship between philosophy and the political is as old as philosophy itself. Since Plato's discussion of the Polis in the Republic , the philosophical has also been the political and Vice Versa . Yet today, what would it mean to re-treat this relationship and question the essence of the political philosophically ? Available here in ...
The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterises being. The first part of this book, 'Existence' asks how, today, one can give sense or meaning to existence as such, arguing that existence itself, as it comes nude into the world, ...
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 embraced by religions, manipulated as "spectacle" and proliferated in the media, images never ...
This book is a collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's "Being and Time" as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also confronts other important philosophers, such as Kant, Nietzsche and Derrida. The projects of these ...
This engaging book by one of France's leading contemporary philosophers celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. Nancy's reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any such 'perfumery ...
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 deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided ...
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, and, the 'mystical body of Christ' - all these (and others) are incorporated in the word "Corpus", the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy's masterwork."Corpus" is a work of literary force at once ...
This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of philosophical systems, The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the ...
Is there a "world" anymore, much less 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 philosophy and political science to psychoanalysis and art history--that talk and write their way around ...
Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger ...
This guide to the Hudson offers a point-by-point reference to the river from its intersection with the Atlantic to its source in the Adirondacks. The book provides readers with five routes by which to tour the region.
One of the more intriguing aspects of contemporary culture, is techno music more than mere escapist entertainment?. In terms of how it has appropriated technology for festive and aesthetic purposes, the techno movement could be considered a sort of artistic and political laboratory of the present. This book explores techno from all vantage points.
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