The Sense of the World / Jean-Luc Nancy
Material type: TextPublication details: University of Minnesota Press; 2008Edition: Second editionDescription: 210p; 23x16cmISBN:- 9780816626113
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Book | Flying Saucer Library | Philosophy. Psychology. Religion. | B1-5802 130.468 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
In an original style befitting his search for a new mode of thought, Nancy offers fragmentary readings of writers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Lévinas, Lacan, Derrida, and Deleuze insofar as their work reflects his concern with sense and the world. Rather than celebrate or bemoan the loss of meaning or attempt to install a new one, his book seeks to reposition both sense and the world between the presence and absence of meaning, between objectivity and subjectivity. Nancy’s project entails a reconception of the field of philosophy itself, a rearticulation of philosophical practice. Neither recondite nor abstract, it is concerned with the existence and experience of freedom-the actuality of existence as experienced by contemporary communities of citizens, readers, and writers.
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