Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers
This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings demands explication.

In this book, some of today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers.

Contributors: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith

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Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers
This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings demands explication.

In this book, some of today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers.

Contributors: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith

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This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings demands explication.

In this book, some of today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers.

Contributors: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781531501990
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 02/21/2023
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Irving Goh is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UniversityPress, 2014), which won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies. His second monograph, L’existence prépositionnelle, was published by Galilée in 2019. With Jean-Luc Nancy, he published The Deconstruction of Sex (Duke UniversityPress, 2021). He is also editor of French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (Routledge, 2019), coeditor with Verena Andermatt Conley of Nancy Now (Polity, 2014), and coeditor with Timothy Murray of the diacritics special issue on “The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy” (2 volumes, 2014-15).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy Passes | 1
Irving Goh

1 The Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time
(Reading Descartes with Jean-Luc Nancy) | 21
Georges Van Den Abbeele

2 Nancy with Hegel: The Restless Pleasures of Calculus and the Infinite Opening in Finitude | 52
John H. Smith

3 The World, Absolutely: On Jean-Luc Nancy (and Karl Marx) | 75
Rodolphe Gasché

4 Worldless: Heidegger, Simone Weil, and Anti-Judaism via Nancy | 91
Eleanor Kaufman

5 Flesh and Écart in Merleau-Ponty and Nancy | 111
Marie-Eve Morin

6 Sexistence: Nancy and Lacan | 135
Emily Apter

7 Sublime Seizures in Lyotard and Nancy: The Political Blooming of Art and Technology | 149
Timothy Murray

8 D’avec: Mutations and Mutisms in Jean-Luc Nancy | 166
Werner Hamacher

9 Infinitely Passing (or, Pascal Passes) | 205
Jean-Luc Nancy

List of Contributors | 211

Index | 215

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