Nancy Now (Theory Now) by Verena Conley,Irving Goh

By Verena Conley,Irving Goh

Jean-Luc Nancy stands as one of many nice French theorists of "deconstruction." His writings on philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and faith have considerably contributed to the improvement of latest French proposal and assisted in shaping and remodel the sphere of continental philosophy. via Nancy's substantial oeuvre, which covers quite a lot of issues resembling group, freedom, lifestyles, feel/ contact, democracy, Christianity, the visible arts and track, and writing itself, we've got discovered to take inventory of the area in a extra nuanced fashion.

during this assortment, contemporaries of Nancy and eminent students of continental philosophy, together with Giorgio Agamben, Étienne Balibar, Ginette Michaud, Georges Van Den Abbeele, Gregg Lambert and Ian James, were invited to mirror at the strength of Nancy's "deconstruction" and the way it has affected, or will have an effect on, the methods we process the various such a lot pertinent subject matters in modern philosophy. the gathering additionally contains Jean-Luc Nancy's formerly unpublished 'Dialogue underneath the Ribs', the place he displays, 20 years after, on his middle transplant.

Nancy Now may be of serious curiosity not just to students engaged on or with Nancy's philosophy, but additionally to these attracted to the advance and way forward for French thought.

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