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The Ground of the Image .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:41 PS PAGEi SeriesBoard JamesBernauer DrucillaCornell ThomasR.Flynn KevinHart Jean-LucMarion AdriaanPeperzak RichardKearney ThomasSheehan HentdeVries MeroldWestphal EdithWyschogrod MichaelZimmerman .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:42 PS PAGEii John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVESIN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:43 PS PAGEiii .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:43 PS PAGEiv JEAN-LUC NANCY The Ground of the Image TRANSLATED BY JEFF FORT FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS NewYork 2005 .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:43 PS PAGEv Copyright(cid:2)2005FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina retrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic, mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsin printedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. Chapters1–6ofTheGroundoftheImagewerepublishedasAufonddesimages,by Jean-LucNancy,Copyright(cid:2)E´ditionsGalile´e,2003.Chapter8wasoriginally publishedasVisitation(delapeinturechre´tienne),byJean-LucNancy,Copyright(cid:2) E´ditionsGalile´e,2000.FortheoriginalpublicationofChapters7and9,see‘‘Note ontheTexts’’below.Chapter7waspublishedas‘‘Nousautres,’’Copyright(cid:2) E´ditionsGalile´e,2003,andChapter8waspublishedinFrenchas‘‘Souvereineen peinture,’’Copyright(cid:2)E´ditionsGalile´e,2004. ThisworkhasbeenpublishedwiththeassistanceoftheNationalCenterforthe Book—FrenchMinistryofCulture. Ouvragepublie´ aveclesoutienduCentrenationaldulivre—ministe`refranc¸ais charge´ delaculture. PerspectivesinContinentalPhilosophySeries,No.51 ISSN1089–3938 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Nancy,Jean-Luc. [Aufonddesimages.English] Thegroundoftheimage/Jean-LucNancy;translatedbyJeffFort. p. cm.—(Perspectivesincontinentalphilosophy;no.51) Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. ). ISBN0-8232-2609-3(hardcover:alk.paper)—ISBN0-8232-2610-7 (pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Image(Philosophy) 2. Aesthetics. I. Title. II. Series. B2430.N363A9413 2005 111(cid:2).85—dc22 2005028401 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:43 PS PAGEvi Thecloserhecametothisdeceptiveimageoftheisland’sshore, themore thisimage receded;it continuedto fleefrom him,and he knewnotwhattothinkofthisflight. —Fe´nelon,AdventuresofTelemachus Inthe depthsoftheforestyourimagefollowsme. —Racine,Phaedra .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:44 PS PAGEvii .................15668$ $$FM 10-25-0515:10:44 PS PAGEviii Contents Illustrations x NoteontheTexts xi 1 TheImage—theDistinct 1 2 ImageandViolence 15 3 ForbiddenRepresentation 27 4 UncannyLandscape 51 5 DistinctOscillation 63 6 MaskedImagination 80 7 NousAutres 100 8 Visitation:OfChristianPainting 108 9 TheSovereignWomaninPainting 126 Notes 139 ix .................15668$ CNTS 10-25-0515:10:48 PS PAGEix
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