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9781438442266

Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking : Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense

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    9781438442266

  • ISBN10:

    1438442262

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-08-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy's thought.

Author Biography

Peter Gratton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of The State of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Marie-Eve Morin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
List of Abbreviationsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Expositions of the World: Creation, Globalization, and the Legacies of Christianity
The Creation of the Worldp. 13
No Other Place to Be: Globalization, Monotheism, and Salut in Nancyp. 27
Christianity's Other Resource: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Faithp. 43
Deconstruction and Globalization: The World According to Jean-Luc Nancyp. 57
Expositions of Ontology, or a Post-Deconstructive Realism
Nancy's Materialist Ontologyp. 79
On Interface: Nancy's Weights and Massesp. 95
The Speculative Challenge and Nancy's Post-Deconstructive Realismp. 109
Expositions of the Political: Justice, Freedom, Equality
Archi-ethics, Justice, and the Suspension of History in the Writing of Jean-Luc Nancyp. 129
Jean-Luc Nancy on the Political after Heidegger and Schmittp. 143
The Task of Justicep. 159
Expositions of Sense: Art and the Limits of Representation
De-monstration and the Sens of Artp. 175
Poetry's Promiscuous Plurality: On a Part of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Musesp. 191
Forbidding, Knowing, Continuing: On Representing the Shoahp. 213
Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy
The Commerce of Plural Thinkingp. 229
Bibliography of Jean-Luc Nancy's Works in Englishp. 241
List of Contributorsp. 247
Indexp. 251
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