...This chapter expands on the principal figure of community: language. It examines the consequences of the analysis of community, shown to be a lack in common (Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto Esposito), on the idea of language. Given the impossibility of making community, and given, too, the status...

... of Nancy J L curse Laclau E populism Pomerantsev P Lerner B spread in debates Truth Post-truth Argumentation Expression Equivalence Equality Michel Foucault Alain Badiou Jean-Luc Nancy In his 2006 book Logics of Worlds Alain Badiou anticipated today’s proclamations...

...This chapter sets forth and critiques Alain Badiou’s account of the death of the God of metaphysics, setting it alongside Jean-Luc Nancy’s critique of the metaphysics of the death of God. Whereas, for Badiou, we do not have the means to be atheist so long as the theme of finitude governs our...

... Spacing Monotheism Rationality ‘yet without’ Crowley Martin Sense in Nancy Incommensurability Adoration Capital Christmas projection Merleau Ponty Maurice Technē James Ian Beckett Samuel Žižek Slavoj God of the poets Alain Badiou Jean-Luc Nancy Romanticism Deconstruction of Christianity...

...This book explores the spatial and aesthetic dimensions of politics. Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Rancière, it shows the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend...

... Theodosius Catherine Mitchell Robert Never Let Me Go film 2010 Biocapitalism Emotional capital Sianne Ngai Kazuo Ishiguro Care Cloning Organ transplantation Neoliberalism David Palumbo-Liu Jean-Luc Nancy In Chapter 4 , I examined empathy in the context of the global economy, arguing that flows...

... a post-foundational approach does not attempt to erase completely such figures of the ground, but to weaken their ontological status. The different predicates given to the political by theorists as diverse as Paul Ricoeur, Chantal Mouffe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and others...

...The fifth chapter moves from Ricœur's reflections on spacing in relation to justice to Jean-Luc Nancy's postphenomenological account of spacing in relation to sense. The chapter stages an encounter between Derrida and Nancy on the subject of the latter's account of ontology as opening and exposure...

...Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between two important movements in European thought through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricœur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's...

... how Agamben's response is to adapt a range of concepts from a range of very different thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. The homo sacer is devalued life, life as ce qui reste, a remnant that happens...

... Music Sense Genre Techno Rock Jean-Luc Nancy Titian [L]a jouissance phallique est l’obstacle par quoi l’homme n’arrive pas, dirai-je, à jouir du corps de la femme, précisément parce que ce dont il jouit, c’est la jouissance de l’organe. Lacan ¹ This chapter explores the work of Jean...

... Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy to the study, discussing how their disruption of the opposition between touching and not-touching contributes to the way we read the skin, and arguing that interruption and withdrawal always haunt literary tact. Ahmed Sara and Stacey Jackie intimacy Michaels Anne...

... ontological boundaries or defining categories. Denis covers both formerly and conceptually a taxonomy of borders, which are both physical and psychological. Her source material, Jean Luc Nancy’s essay about his heart transplant, is considered in relation to the way Denis produces a moving image work from...

.... Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, the chapter re-reads the psychoanalytic relationship through the figure of Freud's dog, Yofi, arguing that H.D. and Freud perform the instruction to touch and at the same time demonstrate a tactful withdrawal. Bryher Annie Winifred Ellerman...

...Jean-Luc Nancy often asserts that his ontology is also an ethos and praxis. I seek to develop this affirmation with a view to understanding the role and place of ‘another politics’ or ‘another of politics’ in Nancy's work. I start by unfolding Nancy's understanding of existence as abandonment...

... argument is made primarily through a discussion of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, particularly his highly important but misunderstood and underdeveloped concept of ecotechnicity. It is on account of ecotechnity, Nancy argues, that the event of existence should be conceived less in terms of ‘giving’, which...

... Politics Jacques Derrida Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari Jean-Luc Nancy Alain Badiou ‘The “and” conjoins but never innocently or romantically. So much at stake’ (Ansell-Pearson 1997b : 1). At stake, precisely, is nothing less than the future of philosophy and politics...

... by photographic images unfold within this difficult to grasp horizon of massive number. This chapter sets out to understand this situation by analysis of two essays by Jean Luc Nancy. In ‘Nous Autres’ (We Others), Nancy theorises photography as a mode of relation in a way that speaks directly to the uneven...

...This chapter returns to Plato and to Emmanuel Levinas reflecting on the love that grounds philosophy as well as ethics and politics. Jacques Derrida's politics recognises ethical and friendship love. Jean-Luc Nancy explicitly determines the importance of love in the formation of subjectivity...