On Touching-Jean-luc Nancy Jacques Derrida Stanford University Press, 2005 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, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chrétien are ...             Poetry as Experience (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Stanford University Press, 1999 Lacoue-Labarthe’s Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan’s poetry, Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action—a principle that turned, most violently during the twentieth ...             The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism (Suny Series : Intersections : ... Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy State University of New York Press, 1988             Heidegger, Art, and Politics: The Fiction of the Political1 review Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Blackwell Pub, 1990 Interesting and Helpful This volume is essentially Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's philosophy dissertation, in which he seeks to reconcile the significance of Martin Heidegger's metaphysical project with his apparent commitment to National Socialism. This book is more thoughtful, and expresses greater mastery of Heidegger's ...             Le discours de la syncope (La Philosophie en effet) Jean-Luc Nancy Aubier-Flammarion, 1976             The Birth to Presence (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)1 review Jean-Luc Nancy Stanford University Press, 1994 The Birth to Presence and the Presence to Birth Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading philosophers in Europe today. What one encounters in his work is an intensity of thought, a path of thinking, that reaches into the question of birth and presence. Together with his other works such as The Sense of the World, Being Singular Plural, this ...             The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Holderlin (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University Press, 2000 Written in the context of a rejuvenated interest in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), the essays gathered in The Solid Letter offer the first consolidated attempt in English to set out the many facets of his oeuvre. Addressed not only to specialists in German studies but also to readers interested in modern poetry, philosophy, and aesthetics, the volume is wide in scope but succinct ...             A Finite Thinking (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Jean-Luc Nancy Stanford University Press, 2003 The best philosophy book since... since Difference and Repetition. Sure it's not a single masterwork, but rather many many essays, but it's amazing and complex and revealing... Now, none of it will likely make sense unless you're relatively deep into continental philosophy already, but for those who are readers in the field, if ...             Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Stanford University Press, 1998 Philosopher, literary critic, translator (of Nietzsche and Benjamin), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is one of the leading intellectual figures in France. This volume of six essays deals with the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, particularly the role of mimesis in a metaphysics of representation. Comment [1997] “Typography is a book whose importance has not diminished since its ...             Jean-luc Nancy And the Future of Philosophy B. C. Hutchens McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005 B.C. Hutchens offers a clear and succinct appraisal of Nancy's work. He explains the primary areas of the philosopher's thought and explores their relevance for contemporary issues such as nationalism, racism, media rights, and political practice. Nancy's work on freedom and morality, community and politics, and arts and the media is examined in greater detail. Hutchens also examines Nancy's ...             Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze1 review Todd May Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997 Appraising and constructing (on) difference In this critical study, Todd May seeks to appraise the trend to see difference as the constitutive element of our experience, that is, the viewpoint that 'difference plays a more fundamental constitutive role than has previously been recognised' (p. 2). Such an appraisal is, however, not only for ...             Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) John Martis Fordham University Press, 2005 This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe’s thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery, he places Lacoue-Labarthe’s achievements in the context of ...             Technique du présent : Essai sur On Kawara Jean-Luc Nancy Institut d'Art, 1999             The Muses (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Jean-Luc Nancy Stanford University Press, 1997 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 relation between the plurality of the human ...             Multiple Arts: The Muses II Jean-Luc Nancy Stanford University Press, 2006 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 intrinsic multiplicity of art as a concept of ...             The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy2 reviews Ian James Stanford University Press, 2006 yes yes y'all + just the thing I've read most of Nancy's works in translation and a good deal of the available secondary literature out there, so I wasn't sure if picking up this new volume would be that enlightening... but it certainly is. James covers much ground, but also manages to deftly situate and explicate the core ...             On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) D. Sheppard Routledge, 1997 As many struggle to find meaning at the end of philosophy, Jean-Luc Nancy's writing has enlightened many philosophical debates around the questions of community, the political, and freedom. Situatuing his work in an explicitly contemporary context--the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, the former Yugoslavia--Nancy has forced us to rethink nothing less than what "doing" philosophy entails. ...             Le Sens Du Monde Jean-Luc Nancy Editions Galilee, 2001             Book of Addresses (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)1 review Peggy Kamuf Stanford University Press, 2004 the hyphen of sadness Kamuf had a really traumatic experience as a child, when her mom misunderstood her, thinking that she didn't appreciate the second hand on a watch, but she thought her mom was telling her that the watch was used, and she said it didn't matter to her... apparently her mom freaked and for the rest of ...             The Ground of the Image (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort Fordham University Press, 2005 ” The Ground of Image offers more recent and more focused reflections on the nature of representation and art, especially painting.” — Bookforum 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, ...