Böcker av Jean-Luc Nancy

A lyrical meditation on listening, this work examines sound in relation to the human body. It also explores the mystery of music and of its effects on the listener.

How have we thought 'the body'? How can we think it anew? This title incorporates the body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, and the 'mystical body of Christ'. It offers us an encyclopedia and a polemical program - reviewing classical takes on the "corpus" from Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes.

Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and reconsider our relations to ourselves and others through sex.

Abbiamo concepito il progetto di questo numero di Sciamiricerche all¿inizio dell¿estate 2020, un momento in cui i nostri vissuti erano carichi dell¿esperienza e delle implicazioni imposte dall¿emergenza ¿Covid¿, sollecitati a reagire ma anche disorientati da quotidiani interrogativi sulle nostre esistenze; e inevitabilmente sul senso del nostro quotidiano agire entro la dimensione estetica. La proposta giunta da Valentina Valentini di pensare a un numero di Sciami dedicato alla Luce è stata l¿occasione per riunire voci diverse, orchestrate su motivi consonanti. Le questioni chiamate in causa, sentite prima ancor che pensate, evidenziavano qualità sostanziali dell¿evento performativo, i suoi elementi imprescindibili: la condivisione di uno spazio fisico, il respiro comune di una collettività, la percezione e la sensorialità come ineludibili premesse di ogni evento spettacolare; a contrario, il momento faceva emergere punti critici di un sistema privo di equilibri e di strategie d¿orchestrazione, portava a riflettere sulla natura dei teatri¿

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.

"A leading philosopher argues that anti-Semitism is rooted in the structures of Western thought"--

This analysis of art and its modes of existence by a contemporary French philosopher begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones.

Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancementand withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph's ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portraitcontinue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger's recently published Black Notebooks. Nancy refers to a philosophical or "historial" anti-Semitism marked, nonetheless, by the "banality" of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. Heidegger's thought is placed in the broader context of the European (especially Christian) impulse toward new beginnings.

Our contemporary challenge, according to the authors, is that a new world has quietly cropped up on us and is, in fact, already here. In this book, the authors invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, "What's this world coming to?," is used to question our conventional thinking about the world.

What powers lie hidden in images? Nancy explores the complicated effects of the visual on culture, truth, and meaning. Writings on the power hidden in the depth of an image.

Expectation is a collection of critical texts on literature written between 1977 and 2012 and now made available for the first time in English.

Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities-mind and body, reason and desire, logic and eros-Nancy's subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius-I am, I exist-drunk.

Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes's philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes's ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community-a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy's early proposal for thinking an "inoperative community"-The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchot's text.

Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy is a lyrical examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of ownership to the pleasure of orgasm? The philosophers Adele van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, the Marquis de Sade, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to mysticism.

Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life's work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.

26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden. The authors, both philosophers, develop an approach to the nude that involves shedding preconceived concepts and exposing ourselves to the fleeting sense that passes over the surface of the nude's skin and over the surface of the image.

A powerful essay on identity and its fate in our contemporary world. Against various attempts to cling to established identities, Nancy shows that an identity is always open: to alterity and its transformations. Ultimately, one does not have an identity but has to become what one is, without ever returning to a same but solely to difference and singularity.

Corpus II is a collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy dealing with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. It is both a celebration of our sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on all our ways of being together.