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Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism
About this book
Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of drunkenness, heart transplants, contemporary cinema and the problem of freedom, is entirely "immersed" in modernity, as he puts it. Within this plural framework, art – which he explicitly defines as a modern construct – plays a singular role in that it is the very prism through which he explores the problems of sense and feeling in general, particularly as they relate to "our" experience of modernity. The contributors to Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism fully delve into the heretofore under-acknowledged and under-explored modernism of Nancy's writings on philosophy and the arts through close readings of his key works as well as broader essays on the relationship between his thought and aesthetic modernity. In addition to an interview with Nancy himself, a final section consists of an extended glossary of Nancy's signature terms, which will be a valuable resource for students and experts alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1 Conceptualizing Nancy
- 1 Jean-Luc Nancy’s Expectation: Rephrasing “Philoliterature”
- 2 Fort-Pflanzung: The Literary Absolute’s Botanic Afterlife
- 3 Back to The Muses: A Di-versation on the World(s) and the Plurality of Arts
- 4 After Listening: Music, Musicians, and Modernity
- 5 Fabula, Bucca, Humanitas: On Ego Sum
- 6 From Dis-Enclosure to Adoration: Literature and the Deconstruction of Christianity
- Part 2 Nancy and Modernity
- 7 Before the Abyss
- 8 Noli me operare: Reading Nancy (Re-)Reading Blanchot
- 9 “Close Relations”: Nancy and the Question of Psychoanalysis
- 10a Streams of Consciousness: River Poetry from Heidegger to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe
- 10b Altus
- 11 The Regime of Technique: Nancy, Science, and Modernism
- 12 Le fond du film: Worlds, Images, and the Machining of Grounds (or: Blanchot Not/Beyond Nancy)
- 13 Nancy(’s) Surfaces
- 14 The Poetics and Politics of Disenclosure: Nancy, Mbembe
- 15 Between Modernism and Modernité: An Interrupted Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy
- Part 3 Glossary
- 16 Art (and Its Deliverance)
- 17 Body
- 18 Exscription
- 19 Globalization / Mondialisation
- 20 Sense
- 21 With
- Index
- Imprint