Et vigtigt indlæg i debatten om Heidegger og nazismen. Bogen indledes og er oversat af Søren Gosvig Olesen. Diskussionen om Heidegger og nazismen dukker op med jævne mellemrum –... Læs mere
I begyndelsen af 90’erne er filosoffen Jean-Luc Nancys hjerte ved at give op, og da et egnet donorhjerte bliver tilgængeligt, transplanteres det ind i hans brystkasse. Det nye hjerte afstødes... Læs mere
This book uses a deconstructive method to bring together the history of Western Monotheism (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and reflections on contemporary atheism. It develops Nancy’s concepts of sense, world, and exposure.
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.
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.
"A leading philosopher argues that anti-Semitism is rooted in the structures of Western thought"--
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... Læs mere
This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.
Originally written for an exhibition Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, the text addresses the medium of drawing in light of form in its formation, of form as a formative force, opening drawing to questions of pleasure and desire.
Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows... Læs mere
This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.