Understanding Nancy, understanding modernism / edited by Cosmin Toma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Popovici-Toma, Cosmin, editor.

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

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text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of drunkenness, heart transplants, contemporary cinema and the problem of freedom, is entirely "immersed" in modernity, as he puts it. Within this plural framework, art - which he explicitly defines as a modern construct - plays a singular role in that it is the very prism through which he explores the problems of sense and feeling in general, particularly as they relate to "our" experience of modernity. The contributors to Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism fully delve into the heretofore under-acknowledged and under-explored modernism of Nancy's writings on philosophy and the arts through close readings of his key works as well as broader essays on the relationship between his thought and aesthetic modernity. In addition to an interview with Nancy himself, a final section consists of an extended glossary of Nancy's signature terms, which will be a valuable resource for students and experts alike..

Contents:

Introduction (Cosmin Toma, University of Oxford, UK) Part I - Conceptualizing Nancy 1."Jean-Luc Nancy's Expectation: Rephrasing 'Philoliterature'" (Ginette Michaud, Universite de Montreal) 2. "Fort-pflanzung: The Literary Absolute's Botanic Afterlife" (Stefanie Heine, University of Copenhagen) 3."Back to The Muses: a Di-versation on the World and the Arts" (Nicholas Cotton-Lizotte, Princeton University / Collège edouard-Montpetit) 4."After Listening: Music, Musicians and Modernity" (Sarah Hickmott, Durham University) 5."Fabula, Bucca, Humanitas: On Ego Sum" (Andrea Gyenge, University of Toronto) 6."From Dis-Enclosure to Adoration: Literature and the Deconstruction of Christianity" (Schalk Gerber, Stellenbosch University / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Part II - Nancy and Aesthetics 1."From the Abyss" (Jean-Luc Nancy, Universite de Strasbourg; trans. Mike Holland, University of Oxford / St Hugh's College) 2. "Close Relations: Nancy and the Question of Psychoanalysis" (Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania) 3."Noli me operare: Reading Nancy (Re)reading Blanchot" (Aukje van Rooden & Andreas Noyer, University of Amsterdam) 4. "Streams of Consciousness: River Poetry from Heidegger to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe" (John McKeane, University of Reading) and "Altus" (Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Universite de Strasbourg) 5."The Regime of Technique: Nancy, Science and Modernism" (Ian James, Cambridge University) 6."Le fond du film: Worlds, Images, and the Machining of Grounds (or: Blanchot Not/Beyond Nancy)" (Jeff Fort, University of California, Davis) 7."The Poetics and Politics of Disenclosure: Nancy, Mbembe" (Michael Krimper, New York University) 8."Nancy('s) Surfaces" (James Martell, Lyon College) 9."Between Modernism and Modernite: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy" (Jean-Luc Nancy, Universite de Strasbourg & Cosmin Toma, St Hugh's College) Part III - Glossary of Key Terms "Art" (John McKeane, University of Reading) "Body" (Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer, Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Excription" (John Ricco, University of Toronto) "Globalization" (Barney Norman, independent scholar) "Sense" (Isabelle Perreault, Universite du Quebec à Rimouski) "With" (Jerôme Lèbre, ENS Lyon).

ISBN:

9781501370151

OCLC:

1357014941

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