1st Edition

On Jean-Luc Nancy The Sense of Philosophy

Edited By Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks, Colin Thomas Copyright 1997

    This is the first book to consider the increasing importance of Jean-Luc Nancy's work, which has influenced key thinkers such as Jacques Derrida. All his major works have been translated into English, yet until now little has been made available on his place in contemporary philosophy.
    By showing how he situates his work in a contemporary context - the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, and the former Yugoslavia - this outstanding collection reveals how Nancy's engagement with Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida makes him one of the key contemporary continental philosophers.
    Providing new perspectives on the issues of sense, art and community, these essays make it impossible to approach philosophy without reference to the work Jean-Luc Nancy.

    List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Editors' Introduction, 1. Phrase VII Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 2. Lost Horizons and Uncommon Grounds: For a Poetics of Finitude in the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy Georges Van Den Abeele, 3. The Shared World: Philosophy, Violence, Freedom Howard Caygill, 4. Jean-Luc Nancy: the Place of a Thinking Francis Fischer, 5. Ou, séance, touche de Nancy, ici Werner Hamacher, 6. Rashomon and the Sharing of Voices Between East and West Michael B. Naas, 7. Nancy and the Political Imaginary After Nature Wilhelm S. Wurzer, 8. Interruptions of Necessity: Being Between Meaning and Power in Jean-Luc Nancy Jeffrey S. Librett, 9. Alongside the Horizon Rodolphe Gasché, 10. Sacrifice Revisited Miguel de Beistegui, 11. An Inoperative Global Community? Reflections on Nancy Fred Dallmayr, 12. Anger Alphonso Lingis.

    Biography

    Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks, Colin Thomas