Jean-Luc Nancy Justice, Legality and World

by Hutchens, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9781441123787
• ISBN10: 1441123784
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Before now, Jean-Luc Nancy's contributions to legal and political theory have been largely overlooked and lacking the in-depth appraisal they deserve. In this unique collection, eighteen notable Nancy scholars contextualize Nancy's work in these areas within the broad corpus of his other concerns. At the same time, his work is situated within his total achievements with regard to justice and legality in the legal and political theoretical canon. By emphasizing the originality of his theories in a globalizing age, each distinctive chapter provides a new and valuable insight into Nancy's legal and political philosophy. Together with his work on sense, community and art, these cutting edge contributions examine Nancy's conceptions of justice, legality and world in conjunction with the interpretation and rationality of: The ontology of the event. The form of relationality. The effects of globalization. The importance of Christianity in contemporary legal and political theory. Including a brand new essay by Nancy himself, this collection marks an important and timely step in a rich area of study.

Author Biography

Benjamin Hutchens has an Oxford D.Phil. and has been a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy (McGill-Queens/ Acumen, 2005) and Levinas (Continuum, 2004).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Infinite Justice, Groundless Law and Many Worlds	p. 1
Justice, Incommensurability and Being
From the Imperative to Law	p. 11
Being Just? Ontology and Incommensurability in Nancy's Notion of Justice	p. 19
The Just Measure	p. 35
Doing Justice to the Particular and Distinctive: The Laws of Art	p. 47
Legality and Language
Abandonment and the Categorical Imperative of Being	p. 65
Illegal Fictions	p. 82
Nancy Contra Rawls	p. 96
Lapsus Linguae: The Spirit and the Letter	p. 110
Justice, Politics and World
Being-in-Common, or the Meaning of Globalization	p. 131
Nancy, Globalization and Postcolonial Humanity	p. 146
Justice Before and Justice After: Nancy and Rancière on Creation	p. 161
Being With Against: Jean-Luc Nancy on Justice, Politics and the Democratic Horizon	p. 172
Nancy, Justice and Communist Politics	p. 186
The Exigency of Thinking: Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy on "Communism"'	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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