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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 “...
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Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, ph...
Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a ...
In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous compli...
This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamenta...
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 uncon...
If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with...
On the Raising of the Body
Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a f...
Jean-Luc Nancy's probing analysis of art and the sensible presentation of an idea examines why there are several arts and not just one. He uses Hegel'...
A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Commun...
The Equivalence of Catastrophes
In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an i...
A Reading of Lacan
This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the ...
L'image fait l'objet d'une déconsidération permanente en Occident. Si l'on reproche sa superficialité à l'icône, on dénonce pourtant son pouvoir...
The Restlessness of the Negative
At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and p...
Corpus, Anima, Fabula
First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes’s wri...
The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism
The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace t...
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 meani...
The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limit...
The Muses II
This collection of writings by the renowned French critic and poet Jean-Luc Nancy delves into the history of philosophy in order to locate a fundament...
When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. T...
Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher’s public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavo...
Cruor and Other Writings
A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe This landmar...
Fragments, Frankness
Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to...
Written in a direct and accessible, almost manifesto-like style, The Truth of Democracy presents a forceful plea that we rethink democracy not as one ...
The Deconstruction of Christianity
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that ...
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Lu...
In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread ...
The Deconstruction of Christianity II
This second volume in Nancy's The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of t...
A History of Our Ears
An enlightening exploration of the concept of listening and the evolving role of the listener from Beethoven to Charlie Parker to contemporary remixin...
(One of Hegel’s Bons Mots)
Nancy's The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific ...
"A leading philosopher reflects on how our experience of the world in changing in these crisis-ridden times"--...
Logodaedalus
Nancy’s classic study of the role of language in Kant demonstrates why the question of how to write philosophy, of philosophical style, is not just ...
In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher’s rough and ready account of some o...
“A book of philosophy very much captivated with music . . . an acoustemological elaboration of [Nancy’s] theorization of difference.” —Journal...
Jean-Luc Nancy
In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and f...
Two of the essays featured in this work, The Forgetting of Philosophy and The Weight of a Thought, represent a meditation on the changing role of phil...