Jean-Luc Nancy. The Pleasure of Art and The Art of Pleasure. Lecture at European Graduate School. Switzerland, June 11, 2006

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It is evident from his first publications that Nancy has been influenced by many varied and diverse thinkers. He has written Le Discours de la Syncope (1976) and L’Impératif Catégorique (1983) on Kant, La remarque spéculative (translated as The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Hegel, Ego sum (1979) on Descartes and Le Partage des Voix (1982) on Heidegger. Other major influences include Derrida, Bataille, Blanchot and Nietzsche. His first book, published in 1973, was titled Le Titre de la Lettre (The Title of the Letter), and was written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. A critical study of the work of Jacques Lacan, Nancy’s main critique of psychoanalysis is that Lacan puts the metaphysical subject to task, but does so in a manner couched in metaphysics. Nancy has continued to critique psychoanalytic concepts since this book, believing ideas like the Law, Father, Other and Subject worth studying, but warning against the theological remnants embedded in psychoanalytical language. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... René Descartes René Descartes (IPA: , March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, worked as a philosopher and mathematician. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. ... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop deconstruction. Positioning Derridas thought Derrida had a significant effect on continental philosophy and on literary theory, particularly through his long-time... Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 _ July 9, 1962) was a French writer and philosopher, though he avoided the latter term himself. ... Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907_February 20, 2003) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. ... Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (born 1940) is a contemporary French philosopher, literary critic, and translator. ... Jacques Lacan Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud. ... In philosophy, a subject is a being which has subjective experiences or a relationship with another entity (or object). A subject is an observer and an object is a thing observed. ... Plato and Aristotle (right), by Raphael (Stanza della Segnatura, Rome). ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... A concept is an abstract, universal psychical entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events or relations. ... // Balancing scales are symbolic of how law mediates peoples interests For other senses of this word, see Law (disambiguation). ... Fatherhood is the show revolving around the Bindlebeep Family, and various happening, Airs on Nick at Nite ... The Other or constitutive other is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. ... Theology is literally rational discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, rational discourse). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...

Biography

Jean-Luc Nancy graduated in philosophy in 1962 in Paris. He taught for a short while in Colmar, and then in 1968 he took on a position as an assistant at the Institut de Philosophie in Strasbourg. In 1973 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Kant under supervision of Paul Ricœur. He was then promoted maître de conférences at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg. In the 1970s and 1980s he was guest professor at universities all over the world, from the University of California to the Freie Universität in Berlin. His international reputation has grown, and he has been invited as a cultural delegate of the French ministry of external affairs to speak in Eastern Europe, Britain and the United States. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Intercommunality Urban Community of Strasbourg Mayor Fabienne Keller  (UMP) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 78. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ... Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher Paul RicÅ“ur (February 27, 1913, Valence - May 20, 2005, Chatenay Malabry) was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his attempt to combine phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. ... The Université Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB is a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...

In the last part of the 1980s and early 1990s Nancy had to take a break from his active career due to illness. He underwent a heart transplant, and his recovery from this was made more difficult by a long-term fight with cancer. He stopped teaching, and quit participation in almost all of the committees with which he was engaged, however he never stopped writing. Many of his best known texts were published during this time. A moving account of his experience entitled L'intrus (The Intruder) was published in 2000. Today he remains an active philosopher, invited to speak around the world for many philosophical congresses, and writing ceaselessly. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg . Filmmaker Claire Denis has made at least two movies inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy and his works. Many other artists have worked with Nancy as well, for example the filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and the artist Soun-gui Kim. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The University Palace in Strasbourg, and a monument to one of the universitys students, Johann Wolfgang Goethe The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is divided into three separate institutions. ... Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a Paris-based filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles. ... Abbas Kiarostami (عباس کیارستمی in Persian) (born June 22, 1940 in Tehran) is one of the most influential and controversial post-revolutionary Iranian filmmakers and one of the most highly celebrated directors in the international film community of the last decade. ...

Works

Les Fins de l'Homme Conference (The Ends of Man, 1980)

In 1980, Nancy and Lacoue-Lebarthe organized a conference on Derrida and politics in Cerisy-la-Salle called "Les Fins de l'Homme" ("The Ends of Man"). Nancy has said that Derrida inspires his belief that something new was born in philosophy after Sartre. The conference solidified Derrida’s place at the forefront of contemporary philosophy, and was a place to begin an in-depth conversation between philosophy and contemporary politics. Further to their desire to rethink the political, Nancy and Lacoue-Lebarthe set up in the same year the Centre de Recherches Philosophiques sur la Politique (The Centre of philosophical Research of the Political). The Centre was a space for discussion on this topic, and supported such speakers as Claude Lefort and Jean-François Lyotard. Two of Nancy’s books, Rejouer le Politique (1981) and Le Retrait du Politique (translated as Retreating the Political in 1997), were inspired by this time in his career. By 1984 however, the Centre was failing to meet the original aspirations of its founders as a common space with common concerns, becoming instead a podium for a succession of speakers. They decided to close the Centre, saying that the Centre as a place of encounter “had become almost completely dissociated from that as a place of research and questioning.” 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop deconstruction. Positioning Derridas thought Derrida had a significant effect on continental philosophy and on literary theory, particularly through his long-time... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Claude Lefort was born in 1924 and was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (whose posthumous publications Lefort later edited). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative Community, 1982)

Nancy’s first book on the question of community, La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative Community, 1982), is perhaps his best known work. This text is an introduction to some of the main philosophical themes Nancy will continue to work with. Nancy traces the influence of the notion of community to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual, and argues that it has dominated modern thought. Discarding popular notions, Nancy redefines community, asking what can it be if it is not to be reduced to a society (an economic association based on needs) - and its corrolary, individualism - on one side, or to a hypostased mystic fusion, blood community (fascism), on the other side? Community is not a subject, he argues, finally defining it through its political nature in its resistance to immanent power, rather than as a project of communal production or fusion. He writes that our attempt to design society according to pre-planned definitions frequently leads to social violence and political terror, and poses the social and political philosophical question of how to proceed with the development of society with this knowledge in mind. La Communauté désœuvrée means that community is not the result of a production, be it social, economic or even political - nationalist - production; it is not une œuvre (which comes from the latin opus), a "work of art" ("œuvre d'art", but "art" is here understood in a large sense). “The community that becomes a single thing (body, mind, fatherland, Leader…) necessarily loses the in of being-in-common. Or, it loses the with or the together that defines it. It yields its being-together to a being of togetherness. The truth of community, on the contrary, resides in the retreat of such a being.” Maurice Blanchot was inspired by Nancy’s work on community and Bataille, whose work on sovereignty is also a subject of La communauté désoeuvrée, in writing his own La communauté inavouable (trans. The Unavowable Community in 1988) as a response to Nancy. They would continue to participate in dialogue together until Blanchot's death. A community usually refers to a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group, but it can refer to various collections of living things sharing an environment, plant or animal. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Experience in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This article discusses the general concept of experience. ... 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Political power (imperium in Latin) is a type of power held by a person or group in a society. ... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ... Terror is a pronounced state of fear, an overwhelming sense of imminent danger. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Look up Opus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ... Mental redirects here. ... Fatherland is the nation of ones fathers or forefathers. ... Look up Leadership in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907-February 20, 2003) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. ... Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 _ July 9, 1962) was a French writer and philosopher, though he avoided the latter term himself. ... 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L'Expérience de la liberté (The Experience of Freedom, 1988)

Nancy was elected docteur d’état (doctor of state) in 1987 in Toulouse with the congratulations of the jury, who included Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Derrida. His supervisor was Gérard Granel. His dissertation looked at the works of Kant, Schelling, Sartre and Heidegger, and concentrated on their treatment of the topic of freedom. It was published in 1988 as L'Expérience de la Liberté (trans. The Experience of Freedom), and since this time Nancy has continued to concentrate on a reorientation of Heidegger’s work. Nancy treats freedom as a property of the individual or collectivity, and looks for a ‘non-subjective’ freedom which would attempt to think the existential or finite origin for every freedom. Freedom is what is in Dasein, or the being-thrown-into-the-world, and not being. Like Heidegger, Nancy interprets Kant’s freedom as an unconditional causality; freedom is that of a subject who, before it can make a decision to be free, forgets that it is always already thrown into existence. He argues that it is necessary to think freedom in its finite being, because to think of it as the property of an infinite subject is to make any finite being a limit of freedom. The existence of the other is the necessary condition of freedom, rather than its limitation. Freedom is reliant on the presupposition of our being-in-the-world, as Nancy had already shown in The Inoperable Community. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New city flag (Occitan cross) Traditional coat of arms Motto: (Occitan: For Toulouse, always more) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Midi-Pyrénées Département Haute-Garonne (31) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc  (UMP) (since 2004... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20, 1854) was a German philosopher. ... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. ... Mohandas K. Gandhi - Freedom can be achieved through inner sovereignty. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Use of the term In common usage, property means ones own thing and refers to the relationship between individuals and the objects which they see as being their own to dispense with as they see fit. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement emphasizing individualism, individual freedom, and subjectivity. ... Dasein is a concept forged by Martin Heidegger in his magnum opus Being and Time . ... In ontology, a being is anything that can be said to be, either transcendantly or immanently. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Subject (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. ...

Le Sens du Monde (The Sense of the World, 1993)

Nancy addresses the world in its contemporary global configuration in other writings on freedom, justice and sovereignty. In his book Le Sens du Monde (The Sense of the World, 1993), he asks what we mean by saying that we live in one world, and how our sense of the world is changed by saying that it is situated within the world, rather than above or apart from it. To Nancy, the world, or existence, is our ontological responsibility, which precedes political, juridical and moral responsibility. He describes our being in the world as an exposure to a naked existence, without the possibility of support by a fundamental metaphysical order or cause. Contemporary existence no longer has recourse to a divine framework, as was the case in feudal society where the meaning and course of life was predetermined. The contingency of our naked existence as an ontological question is the main challenge of our existence in contemporary global society. The world is, in a philosophical sense, everything that is seen and percieved by human intellect and human senses, even though some branches of philosophy may refer to different worlds, making a reference to the different realms of philosophy (such as the mathematical world, the intelligible world, the world of... J.L. Urban, statue of Lady Justice at court building in Olomouc, Czech Republic Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. ... Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers, and should be edited to rectify this. ... This article is about the philosophical meaning of ontology. ... In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessary. ...

Être Singulier Pluriel (Being Singular Plural, 2000)

In his book Être Singulier Pluriel (trans. Being Singular Plural, 2000), Nancy tackles the question of how we can speak of a plurality of a ‘we’ without making of the ‘we’ a singular identity (i.e. a community as a product, or a group of people with a single "essential" characteristic). The premise of the title essay in this book is that there is no being without ‘being with’, that ‘I’ does not come before ‘we’ (Dasein is not prior to mitsein), and that there is no existence without co-existence. In an obvious extension from his thoughts on freedom, community, and the sense of the world, he imagines the ‘being-with’ as a mutual exposure to one another that preserves the freedom of the ‘I’, and thus a community that is not subject to an exterior or preexistent definition. He writes, “There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.” The five essays that follow the title piece continue to develop Nancy’s philosophy through discussions of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity and hybridism, the Gulf War and Sarajevo. Nancy’s central concern in these essays remains the ‘being-with’, and he uses this as a place for discussion relevant to issues of psychoanalysis, politics and multiculturalism, looking at notions of ‘self’ and ‘other’, in current contexts. This article is about the year 2000. ... Dasein is a concept forged by Martin Heidegger in his magnum opus Being and Time . ... Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region or group of people, such as a nation or a tribe. ... A war is a conflict between two or more groups that involve large numbers of individuals. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hybridism. ... Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf Saddam Hussein Strength 660,000 360,000 Casualties 378 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 dead, 75,000 wounded The Gulf War ( 2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991 ) was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations... Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Coordinates: Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Canton Sarajevo Canton Mayor Semiha Borovac Area    - City 142 km²  (54. ... Multiculturalism is an ideology advocating that society should consist of, or at least allow and include, distinct cultural groups, with equal status. ... In philosophy, the self is the idea of a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic conciousness. ...

Artistic analysis

Nancy has also written for art catalogues and international art journals, especially on contemporary art. He also writes poetry and for the theatre, earning him respect as an influential philosopher of art and culture. In his book Les Muses, published in 1994 (trans. The Muses, 1996), he begins with an analysis of Hegel’s thesis on the death of art. Among the essays in The Muses is a piece on Caravaggio, which was originally a lecture given at the Louvre. In this essay Nancy looks for a different conception of painting where painting is not a representation of the empirical world, but a presentation of the world, of sense, or of existence. Nancy has published books on film and techno-music, as well as texts on the problem of representation, on the statute of literature, on image and violence, and on the work of On Kawara, Soun-gui, Baudelaire, and Hölderlin. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 28, 1573 – July 18, 1610), usually called Caravaggio after his hometown near Milan, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people. ... The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is the largest, oldest, most important and famous art gallery and museum in the world. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... Most generally, a representation is a performing of selected functions or roles of another physical or abstract object/person/organization in predefined circumstances and it is based on the consensus of the group/community involved. ... Street preacher in Covent Garden using a presentation style Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... In common usage, an image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artifact that reproduces the likeness of some subject—usually a physical object or a person. ... Violence is any act of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause injury, in some cases criminal, or harm to persons, and (to a lesser extent) animals or property. ... Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821–August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets. ... Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ...

Cinema

Nancy's text "L'Intrus" formed the basis for French director Claire Denis's film of the same name. Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a Paris-based filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles. ...

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Bibliography

Selected works

• La Remarque spéculative (Un bon mot de Hegel), Paris, Galilée, 1973.
• La titre de la lettre, Paris, Galilée, 1973 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
• Le Discours de la syncope. I. Logodaedalus, Paris, Flammarion, 1975.
• L'absolu littéraire. Théorie de la littérature du romantisme allemand, Paris, Seuil, 1978 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Ego sum, Paris, Flammarion, 1979.
• Le partage des voix, Paris, Galilée, 1982.
• La communauté désoeuvrée, Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1983.
• L'Impératif catégorique, Paris, Flammarion, 1983.
• L'oubli de la philosophie, Paris, Galilée, 1986.
• Des lieux divins, Mauvezin, T.E.R, 1987.
• L'expérience de la liberté, Paris, Galilée, 1988.
• Une Pensée Finie, Paris, Galilée, 1990.
• Le poids d'une pensée, Québec, Le griffon d'argile, 1991.
• Le mythe nazi, La tour d'Aigues, L'Aube, 1991 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
• La comparution (politique à venir), Paris, Bourgois, 1991 (with Jean-Chrisophe Bailly).
• Corpus, Paris, Métailié, 1992.
• Les Muses, Paris, Galilée, 1994.
• Être singulier pluriel, Paris, Galilée, 1996.
• Hegel. L'inquiétude du négatif, Paris, Hachette, 1997.
• L'Intrus, Paris, Galilée, 2000.
• Le regard du portrait, Paris, Galilée, 2000.
• La pensée dérobée. Paris, Galilée, 2001.
• The evidence of film. Bruxelles, Yves Gevaert, 2001.
• La création du monde ou la mondialisation. Paris, Galilée, 2002.
• La déclosion (Déconstruction du christianisme 1). Paris, Galilée, 2005.

English translations

• The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
• The Inoperative Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
• The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
• The Birth to Presence. Stanford University Press, 1993.
• The Experience of Freedom. Stanford University Press, 1993.
• The Muses. Stanford University Press, 1996.
• The Gravity of Thought. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1997.
• Retreating the Political. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; edited by Simon Sparks. London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-15163-5.
• The Sense of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
• Being Singular Plural. Stanford University Press, 2000.
• The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's Bons Mots. Stanford University Press, 2001.
• Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• A Finite Thinking. Stanford University Press, 2003
• The Ground of the Image. Fordham Univerisity Press, 2005.
• Multiple Arts (The Muses II). Stanford University Press, 2006.
• The Creation of the World or Globalization. SUNY Press, 2007, forthcoming.

Secondary texts in English

• Derrida, Jacques. On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy. Stanford University Press, 2005.
• Hutchens, B.C. Jean-Luc Nancy and The Future of Philosophy. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
• James, Ian. The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy. Stanford University Press, 2006.
• Kamuf, Peggy, ed. On the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy: A Special Issue of Paragraph. Nov. 1992
• Sparks, Simon, ed. On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy. Routledge, 1997.

See also

• deconstruction
• deconstruction-and-religion
• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction

In contemporary philosophy and social sciences, the term deconstruction denotes a process by which the texts and languages of (particularly) Western philosophy appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions they suggest about and absences they reveal within themselves. ... Weak theology -- in close association with deconstruction-and-religion -- is a school of thought within continental philosophical theology that has been heavily influenced by Jacques Derridas style of theorizing known as deconstruction. ... This is a list of notable thinkers that have been influenced by deconstruction. ...

External links

• “Between Story and Truth” by Nancy
• Faculty profile at the European Graduate School includes bibliography, quotations, and video clips.
• Review of “The Sense of the World” by David Patrick
• “The Technique of the Present” lecture given by Nancy in January 1997 at the Nouveau Musée during the exposition of On Kawara's work
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• University of Minnesota Press description of “Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative” by Nancy
• Review of “Being Singular Plural” by Nancy
• Review of "La Déclosion : Déconstruction du christianisme, 1" by Nancy

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