Nancy and the Political

304 Pages·2015·2.539 MB·English

by  Sanja Dejanovic

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Contents
List of Contributors vu
Introduction: Sense, Praxis, and the Political l
Sanja Dejanovic
EvenotfS ensBee:i ng-WEitthhi,Dc esm,o cracy
I. 'We Must Become What We Are': Jean-Luc Nancy's
Ontology as Ethos and Praxis 21
Marie-Eve Morin
2. Badiou and Nancy: Political Animals 43
Christopher Watkin
3· Nancy and Hegel: Freedom, Democracy and the
Loss of the Power to Signify 66
Emilia Angelova
4· The Event of Democracy 88
Franf ois Raff oul
5· Thinking Nancy's 'Political Philosophy' II6
Ignaas Devisch
EverythiisNn ogtP olitical
6. Image-Politics: Jean-Luc Nancy's Ontological
Rehabilitation of the Image 139
Alison Ross
Immanent Surface: Art and the Demand for
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Signification 164
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
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8. The Separated Gesture: Partaking in the Inoperative
Praxis of the Already-Unmade 192
John Paul Ricco
TheP olitBiectawle Tewno I nfinitEiveasl:u ations
9. Im-mundus or Nancy's Globalising-World-
Formation 219
Jean-Paul Martinon
ro. Precarity/Abandonment 245
Philip Armstrong
r r. 'A Struggle between Two Infinities': Jean-Luc
Nancy on Marx's Revolution and Ours 2 72
Jason E. Smith
Litso fC ontributors
EmilAinag eloisv Aass ociate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia
University. Her research focuses on problems of the constitution
of self, singularity and subjectivity in twentieth-century continen­
tal philosophy. She has published a number of journal articles that
engage with the thought of Kant, Heidegger, and Levinas. She is
the recipient of Trent's Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching.
PhilAirpm strios nAsgso ciate Professor at Ohio State University. He
is the author of Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks
of the Political (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). He has
co-edited issues of La Part de L'Oeil (with Laura Lisbon and
Stephen Melville, 2001), and, Res (with Stephen Melville and Erica
Naginski, 2004). Current research includes a book on a genealogy
of networks, and essays on the relation between photography and
phenomenology in the writings of Barthes, Damisch, and Nancy.
SanjDae janorvecieicve d her PhD from York University. Her dis­
sertation deals with the paradox of sense or event of thought in
Gilles Deleuze's philosophy. She is the author of various journal
articles, including, 'The Sense of the Transcendental Field: Deleuze,
Sartre, Husserl' with the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. She is
working on a book project provisionally entitled Freedom: On the
Mutually Refiected Affirmation.
IgnaaDse visics hP rofessor in Social Philosophy, Ethics and
Philosophy of Medicine at University College Arteveldehogeschool
and Ghent University, Belgium. He is co-editor of Re-treating
Religion: Deconstructing Christian�ty with Jean-Luc Nancy
(Fordham University Press, 2orr).
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JonathLa. nD ronsfieisl Rde ader in Theory and Philosophy
of Art at the University of Reading, and sits on the Executive
Committee of the Forum for European Philosophy, London
School of Economics. He has two forthcoming works, Derrida
and the Visual, and, Headlessness (with Marcus Steinweg and
Thomas Hirschhorn).
Jean-PMaaurlt inios na lecturer in the Department of Visual
Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He was the co­
founder and curator of Rear Window (1991-8), an independent
arts trust that staged a series of exhibitions and conferences in
temporary sites across London. He has published numerous essays
in exhibition catalogues and academic journals on museum theory
and contemporary French deconstruction. He is the author of
On Futurity: Malabou, Nancy and Derrida (Palgrave Macmillan,
2007).
Marie-EMvoer inis Professor of Philosophy at University of
Alberta. She is the author of jean-Luc Nancy (Polity, 2012) and
has co-edited jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of
World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense (New York Press, 2012). She
is currently working on a project on Merleau-Ponty and Nancy at
the Limits of Phenomenology.
Fran�oRiasf foius lPr ofessor of Philosophy at Louisiana State
University. He is the author of Heidegger and the Subject
(Prometheus Books, 1999), A Chaque fois Mien (Galilee, 2003),
and The Origins of Responsibility (forthcoming, Indiana University
Press). He is the co-author (with David Pettigrew) of Disseminating
Lacan (SUNY Press, 1996), Heidegger and Practical Philosophy
(SUNY Press, 2002), and, more recently, Rethinking Facticity
(SUNY Press, 2008). He has jointly translated Jean-Luc Nancy's
The Creation of the World or Globalization, and The Gravity of
Thought.
JohnP aulR iccios Associate Professor of Contemporary Art,
Media Theory, and Criticism in the Department of Visual Studies
at University of Toronto. He is completing two books. One is
entitled, The Decision Between Us, which is a theorisation of the
aesthetic staging of the space of decision in late-twentieth century
art and visual culture. The other, Non-Consensual Futures, is on
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the politics and ethics of the contractual, trust, faith, and futurity
in the contemporary era of the simulacrum and spectacle.
AlisoRno ssis a member of the Research Unit in European
Philosophy in the Arts Faculty at Monash University. She is the
author of The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant,
Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (Stanford University
Press, 2007).
JasoEn. S mithis Assistant Professor in the Graduate Art
Department at Art Center College of Design. He writes on
contemporary art, continental philosophy and political theory,
and his work has recently appeared in Critical Inquiry, Critical
Companion to Contemporary Marxism, Grey Room, Parrhesia
and Theory & Event, among other places. With Philip Armstrong,
he recently published a long interview with Jean-Luc Nancy,
Politique et au-dela (Galilee, 2on). He is currently writing a book
on the films of Guy Debord.
ChristoWpahtekri spne cialises in twentieth-century and contem­
porary French literature and philosophy. He has recently published
Phenomenology or Deconstruction (Edinburgh University Press,
2008 ), and his most recent work deals with the theme of atheism
in contemporary French thought, with particular reference to the
works of Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux and Jean-Luc Nancy,
entitled Difficult Atheism (Edinburgh University Press, 2on). He
is part of the Contemporary European Thought Research Group.