Jean-Luc Nancy : justice, legality, and world / [edited by] B. C. Hutchens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchens, B. C. (Benjamin C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nancy, Jean-Luc.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

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, thirteen notable Nancy scholars contextualize Nancy's work in these areas within the broad corpus of his other concerns.

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 justice in respect of incommensurability, immeasurability and the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of 'doing justice'; the nature of law in terms of abandonment and the categorical imperative, the role of fictioning in legal reasoning, a procedural theory of justice, and the question of speech, writing and the ground of law in Nancy's critique of Christianity; and the relation between politics and world in the context of questions about democracy, political creation, finitude and community, post-foundationalism and the nature of communism.

Including a new essay by Nancy himself, this collection marks an important and timely step in a rich area of study. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Justice, Incommensurability and Being

1 From the Imperative to Law / Jean-Luc Nancy Nancy, Jean-Luc 11

2 Being Just? Ontology and Incommensurability in Nancy's Notion of Justice / Christopher Watkin Watkin, Christopher 19

3 The Just Measure / Ian James James, Ian 35

4 Doing Justice to the Particular and Distinctive: The Laws of Art / Martta Heikkilä Heikkilä, Martta 47

Part 2 Legality and Language

5 Abandonment and the Categorical Imperative of Being / Francois Raffoul Raffoul, Francois 65

6 Illegal Fictions / Gilbert Leung Leung, Gilbert 82

7 Nancy Contra Rawls / B. C. Hutchens Hutchens, B. C. 96

8 Lapsus Linguae: The Spirit and the Letter / James Gilbert-Walsh Gilbert-Walsh, James 110

Part 3 Justice, Politics and World

9 Being-in-Common, or the Meaning of Globalization / Seán Hand Hand, Seán 131

10 Nancy, Globalization and Postcolonial Humanity / Jane Hiddleston Hiddleston, Jane 146

11 Justice Before and Justice After: Nancy and Rancière on Creation / Todd May May, Todd 161

12 Being With Against: Jean-Luc Nancy on Justice, Politics and the Democratic Horizon / Oliver Marchart Marchart, Oliver 172

13 Nancy, Justice and Communist Politics / Jason E. Smith Smith, Jason E. 186

14 The Exigency of Thinking: Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy on "Communism"' / Daniel McDow McDow, Daniel 204.

ISBN:

9781441123787

1441123784

9781441128492

1441128492

OCLC:

741273708