Jean-Luc Nancy justice, legality, and world edited by B. C. Hutchens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchens, B. C. (Benjamin C.), editor.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nancy, Jean-Luc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2012.

Language Note:

English

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. 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

Contents:

Introduction: Infinite Justice, Groundless Law and Many Worlds, B.C. Hutchens

Part I. Justice, Incommensurability and Being

1. From the Imperative to Law, Jean-Luc Nancy

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

3.The Just Measure, Ian James

4. Doing Justice to the Particular and Disctinctive: The Laws of Art, Martta Heikkilä

Part II. Legality, Body and Language

5. Abandonment and the Categorical Imperative of Being, FranciosRaffoul

6. Illegal Fictions, Gilber Leung

7. Nancy Contra Rawls, B.C. Hutchens

8. Lapsus Linguae: The Spirit and the Letter, James Gilbert-Walsh Part III. Justice, Politics and World

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

10. Nancy, Globalization and Postcolonial Humanity, Jane Hiddleston

11. Justice Before and Justice After: Nancy and Rancière on Creation

12. Being With Against: Jean-Luc Nancy on Justice, Politics and the Democratic Horizon, Oliver Marchant

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

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

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-226) and index

ISBN:

9786613380173

9781472546982

1472546989

9781283380171

128338017X

9781441128492

1441128492

OCLC:

769344390