Expositions of world, ontology, politics, and sense state university of new york press nancy, jeanluc, nancy, jeanluc, gratton, peter, morin, marieeve. Pdf on jan 1, 2006, jeanluc nancy and others published ser singular plural trad. In being singular plural, for example, one finds a long parenthesis, at the end of which nancy asserts that both the summit and the abyss of a deconstruction of christianity would be the dislocation of the west, 2 a crucial step in his attempt to begin rethinking beingwith and therefore also subjectivity, mediation, and place. Request pdf being singular plural this book, by one of the most innovative. This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five s.
Being singular plural jeanluc nancy translated by robert. Crossing aesthetics by jeanluc nancy, robert richardson, anne obyrne isbn. Harman in gratton and morin, jeanluc nancy and plural thinking accuses. Among his many books are the muses stanford, 1996, the birth to presence.
Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Pdf art singular plural an interview with jeanluc nancy luca. One of the strongest strands in nancys philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and. Jeanluc nancys thinking of images and his radical ontology of the.
Art, plurality, sense, body, heaviness we met jeanluc nancy after a. Jean luc nancy s fundamental coontology and the ethics of mitsein jean luc nancy s etre singulier pluriel 1996 published in english as being singular plural 2000 could perhaps be characterized as the multiple performance of a single gesture. In what senses is the singular plural the foundation of an images being. This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five. The french philosopher jean luc nancy has made of the question of community one the central questions of his oeuvre. He has recently completed a study of levinas and heidegger. This system of the arts will be defined by nancy in his text the muses as.
For nancy, the question of community is the question of our time, and the need to subject it to thorough philosophical analysis has assumed the central place in his work, alongside his reflections on art, religion and literature. Building on jeanluc nancys being singular plural and sara ahmeds notion of strange encounters, and using graham huggans notions on how the exotic can be put into play, this. One of the strongest strands in nancy s philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in. Article information, pdf download for what makes an image singular plural.
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