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IntroductionIn Peter Gratton & Marie-Eve Morin (eds.), Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-10. 2012.
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Notes on ContributorsIn Continental Realism and its Discontents, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 188-190. 2017.
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76Jean-Luc NancyPolity. 2012.Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading contemporary thinkers in France today. Through an inventive reappropriation of the major figures in the continental tradition, Nancy has developed an original ontology that impacts the way we think about religion, politics, community, embodiment, and art. Drawing from a wide range of his writing, Marie-Eve Morin provides the first comprehensive and systematic account of Nancy’s thinking, all the way up to his most recent work on the deconstruction of Christia…Read more
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34Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2012.Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought
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37 Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How to Go beyond PhenomenologyIn Continental Realism and its Discontents, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 137-154. 2017.
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5Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the PiecesIn Marie-Eve Morin (ed.), Continental Realism and its Discontents, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-18. 2017.
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41. ‘We Must Become What We Are’: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology as Ethos and PraxisIn Sanja Dejanovic (ed.), Nancy and the Political, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 21-42. 2015.
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14The Nancy Dictionary (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2015.The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.Jean-Luc Nancy is a key figure in the contemporary intellectual landscape. This dictionary will, for the first time, consider the full scope of his writing and will provide insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to his focus on community and aesthetics.Drawing on an internationally recognised expertise of a multidisciplinary team of contributors, the 70 entries explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these…Read more
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63Worlds Apart: Conversations between Jacques Derrida & Jean-Luc NancyDerrida Today 9 (2): 157-176. 2016.This article attempts to sort out the misunderstandings between Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy surrounding the question of the animal as they come to the fore in the conversations published in For Strasbourg. While Derrida finds the lack of animals in Nancy’s world puzzling, Nancy criticises Derrida’s blurring of the border between the human and the animal for inadvertently reinstating a scale or a difference, if not between humans and animals, at least between the living and the non-living.…Read more
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10Thinking Things: Heidegger, Sartre, NancySartre Studies International 15 (2): 35-53. 2009.This paper compares Sartre's and Nancy's experience of the plurality of beings. After briefly discussing why Heidegger cannot provide such an experience, it analyzes the relation between the in-itself and for-itself in Sartre and between bodies and sense in Nancy in order to ask how this experience can be nauseating for Sartre, but meaningful for Nancy. First, it shows that the articulation of Being into beings is only a coat of veneer for Sartre while for Nancy Being is necessarily plural. Then…Read more
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60The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 10 (2): 636-638. 2006.
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128Towards a Divine Atheism: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Monotheism and the Passage of the Last GodSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1): 29-48. 2011.In Briefings on Existence, Alain Badiou calls for a radical atheism that would refuse the Heideggerian pathos of a “last god” and deny the affliction of finitude. I will argue that Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of monotheism, as well as his thinking of the world, remains resolutely atheistic, or better atheological, precisely because of Nancy’s insistence on finitude and his appeal to the Heideggerian motif of the last god. At the same time, I want to underline the danger of Nancy’s maintenanc…Read more
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14Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of PhenomenologyEdinburgh University Press. 2022.
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45Freedom Comes from the OutsidePhilosophy Today 66 (1): 1-11. 2022.On the one hand, freedom is said to be the property of a subject. On the other, freedom only happens in the space of being-in-common. Freedom, then, is the place of a conflict between the “self” and the “with,” between independence or autonomy and dependence or sharing. Resolving this apparent antinomy requires showing how the with ontologically constitutes the self. This, in turn, allows for a rethinking of freedom beyond what liberal democracy and political economy have to offer, as the renewe…Read more
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51Scandalous deathAngelaki 27 (1): 8-13. 2022.Around people who were close to him, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe would sometimes cry out with anger: “Death is a scandal! It is intolerable!” When he died almost fourteen years ago, prematurely and af...
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38Jean-Luc nancy’s ethics of finitudeAngelaki 27 (1): 35-46. 2022.Against a certain contemporary style of thinking that wishes to go beyond finitude entirely, I propose a finite praxis modeled after Jean-Luc Nancy’s finite thinking. I argue that the desire to imm...
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5Übertreibung und Zweideutigkeit: Derrida und Merleau-Ponty über Passivität und Aktivität im PerformativenIn Steffi Hobuß & Nicola Tams (eds.), Lassen Und Tun: Kulturphilosophische Debatten Zum Verhältnis von Gabe Und Kulturellen Praktiken, Transcript Verlag. pp. 183-208. 2014.
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Nichts jenseits des NihilismusPhilosophy Today. forthcoming.Nihilism, as the absence of sense and goal, is the most familiar climate of the world in which we live. While this absence is often denounced, such denunciations remain subject to the logic they seemingly oppose. More than exhibiting the collapse of truth, however, nihilism revives our confrontation with “nothing.” The task is henceforth not to denounce nihilism but to think it. Such thinking is guided by Nietzsche’s highest thought: How does nihilism harbor its own excess?
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At Any RatePhilosophy Today. forthcoming.What does the word “value” mean? On the one hand, absolute value is an excellence that is beyond measure. On the other hand, value can also be interpreted as price, as what can be measured and exchanged. In both cases, value lies in relation and is of the same order as sense. But what is the relation between these two senses of value? And why is it so difficult to hold the two apart?
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Freedom Comes from the OutsidePhilosophy Today. forthcoming.On the one hand, freedom is said to be the property of a subject. On the other, freedom only happens in the space of being-in-common. Freedom, then, is the place of a conflict between the “self” and the “with,” between independence or autonomy and dependence or sharing. Resolving this apparent antinomy requires showing how the with ontologically constitutes the self. This, in turn, allows for a rethinking of freedom beyond what liberal democracy and political economy have to offer, as the renewe…Read more
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2The Politics of Peter Sloterdijk’s Global FoamProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 30 47-56. 2008.This paper takes up Peter Sloterdijk’s proposition for a new thinking of the world as global foam. After quickly reminding the reader of the main characteristics of “bubbles” as “immune spheres of existence”, I retrace the three phases of the history globalization as they have been developed by Sloterdijk in the Spheres trilogy. I then focus on the third phase, also called Global Age, and try to bring together the two seemingly opposed concepts Sloterdijk has used to discuss the age of globality…Read more
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5A Mêlée without Sacrifice: Nancy’s Ontology of Offering against Derrida’s Politics of SacrificePhilosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 139-143. 2006.In this paper, I read Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community in relation to Jacques Derrida's uneasiness with both the word "community" and the thing itself. in doing so, I underline a key difference, maybe even an opposition, in their way of thinking the singular plural, the singular in the plural, or the plurality of singularities. As a result, I oppose what I call Derrida’s politics of sacrifice to Nancy’s ontology of offering.
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25An Ontology for Our TimesAngelaki 26 (3-4): 139-154. 2021.In this article, I put Nancy’s thinking in conversation with contemporary demands for a flat ontology. I show that Nancy does in fact propose an ontology that is flat and in that way undoes the priority of human experience as the producer of sense. At the same time, I show that Nancy avoids two pitfalls other flat ontologies often fall into: a formalism that forgets materiality and falls prey to general equivalence and a depoliticization that removes any agential role for human beings in the cre…Read more
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33Merleau-Ponty’s “Cautious Anthropomorphism”Chiasmi International 22 187-202. 2020.In this paper, I develop what I call, following Steven Shaviro, Merleau-Ponty’s “cautious anthropomorphism.” Rather than defending Merleau-Ponty against the accusation of anthropomorphism, I show the role this anthropomorphism plays in Merleau-Ponty’s critique of the Cartesian-Sartrian ontology of the object. If the thing is always “clothed with human characteristics,” as Merleau-Ponty says in the Causeries, it is not so that it can be reduced to a powerless object that can easily be assimilated…Read more
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14The Powers of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Thinking. An Encounter with: Ignaas Devisch, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community_; Daniele Rugo, _Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Otherness: Philosophy and Powers of Existence_; Frédéric Neyrat, _Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc NancyPhaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 10. 2015.
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