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

by Gratton, Peter; Morin, Marie-eve

• ISBN13: 9781438442266
• ISBN10: 1438442262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Expositions of the World: Creation, Globalization, and the Legacies of Christianity
The Creation of the World	p. 13
No Other Place to Be: Globalization, Monotheism, and Salut in Nancy	p. 27
Christianity's Other Resource: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Faith	p. 43
Deconstruction and Globalization: The World According to Jean-Luc Nancy	p. 57
Expositions of Ontology, or a Post-Deconstructive Realism
Nancy's Materialist Ontology	p. 79
On Interface: Nancy's Weights and Masses	p. 95
The Speculative Challenge and Nancy's Post-Deconstructive Realism	p. 109
Expositions of the Political: Justice, Freedom, Equality
Archi-ethics, Justice, and the Suspension of History in the Writing of Jean-Luc Nancy	p. 129
Jean-Luc Nancy on the Political after Heidegger and Schmitt	p. 143
The Task of Justice	p. 159
Expositions of Sense: Art and the Limits of Representation
De-monstration and the Sens of Art	p. 175
Poetry's Promiscuous Plurality: On a Part of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Muses	p. 191
Forbidding, Knowing, Continuing: On Representing the Shoah	p. 213
Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy
The Commerce of Plural Thinking	p. 229
Bibliography of Jean-Luc Nancy's Works in English	p. 241
List of Contributors	p. 247
Index	p. 251
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