Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

230 Pages·2023·1.568 MB·English

by  Irving Goh (editor)

Jean-L uc Nancy among the Phil oso p hers
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Thomas R. Flynn
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Jean-L uc Marion
Adriaan Peperzak
Thomas Sheehan
Hent de Vries
Merold Westphal
Michael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor

IRVING GOH, EDITOR
Jean- Luc Nancy among the
Phi loso phers
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Contents
Introduction: Jean- Luc Nancy Passes 1
Irving Goh
1 The Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and E very Time
(Reading Descartes with Jean- Luc Nancy) 21
Georges Van Den Abbeele
2 Nancy with Hegel: The Restless Pleasures of Calculus
and the Infinite Opening in Finitude 52
John H. Smith
3 The World, Absolutely: On Jean- Luc Nancy (and Karl Marx) 75
Rodolphe Gasché
4 Worldless: Heidegger, Simone Weil, and Anti- Judaism
via Nancy 91
Eleanor Kaufman
5 Flesh and Écart in Merleau- Ponty and Nancy 111
Marie-E ve Morin
6 Sexistence: Nancy and Lacan 135
Emily Apter
7 Sublime Seizures in Lyotard and Nancy: The Po liti cal Blooming
of Art and Technology 149
Timothy Murray
8 D’avec: Mutations and Mutisms in Jean- Luc Nancy 166
Werner Hamacher
9 Infinitely Passing (or, Pascal Passes) 205
Jean- Luc Nancy
List of Contributors 211
Index 215
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