The birth to presence / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Brian Holmes, and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nancy, Jean-Luc

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian :Crossing Aesthetics.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 423 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterizes being. In examining what this birth to presence might be, we should not ask what presence 'is'; rather, we should conceive presence as presence to someone, including to presence itself.

Notes:

Translated from French.

Includes bibliographical references(pages 395-423).

ISBN:

0804720606 :

0804721890

OCLC:

26723641