Nancy and the political / edited by Sanja Dejanovic
- Published:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2015
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Dejanovic, Sanja
- Series:
- Contents:
- 'We must become what we are': Jean-Luc Nancy's ontology as ethos and praxis / Marie-Eve Morin -- Badiou and Nancy: political animals / Christopher Watkin -- Nancy and Hegel: freedom, democracy, and the loss of the power to signify / Emilia Angelova -- The event of democracy / François Raffoul -- Thinking Nancy's 'political philosophy' / Ignaas Devisch -- Image-politics: Jean-Luc Nancy's ontological rehabilitation of the image / Alison Ross -- Immanent surface: art and the demand for signification / Jonathan Lahey Dronsfeld -- The separated gesture: partaking in the inoperative praxis of the already-unmade / John Paul Ricco -- Im-mundus or Nancy's globalising-world-formation / Jean-Paul Martinon -- Precarity/abandonment / Philip Armstrong -- 'A struggle between two infinities': Jean-Luc Nancy on Marx's revolution and ours / Jason E. Smith.
- Summary:
- Focused around three core themes - capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics - these 11 essays emphasize the potential of Nancy's political thought, and collectively situate it within a broader intellectual context which includes engagements with Badiou, Rancière, Foucault, Agamben and Lefort.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780748683178
0748683178 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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