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  • RETREATING THE POLITICAL
    PHILLIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE / JEAN-LUC NANCY
    This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays, Retreating the Political offers some highly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy and the political. Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud, Heideg...

    $1,380.00

  • WHAT'S THESE WORLDS COMING TO?
    JEAN-LUC NANCY / AURÉLIEN BARRAU
    Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and ne...

    $200.00

  • EXPECTATION
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    "A courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse" from one of France's leading thinkers (Jean-Michel Rabaté, from the Introduction). Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than l...

    $251.00

  • WHAT'S THESE WORLDS COMING TO?
    JEAN-LUC NANCY / AURÉLIEN BARRAU
    The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding. Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no l...

    $200.00

  • AFTER FUKUSHIMA
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    The renowned philosopher offers "a powerful reflection on our times . . . and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima" (François Raffoul, Louisiana State University).   In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impac...

    $274.00

  • THE PLEASURE IN DRAWING
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    The renowned philosopher contemplates the medium of drawing in "a book full of dazzling insights, imaginative curves and provocative renewals" (Sarah Clift, University of King's College).   In 2007, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy curated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. This book, originally written for that exhibition, explores the interplay between drawing and fo...

    $229.00

  • DIS-ENCLOSURE
    JEAN-LUC NANCY / MICHAEL B. SMITH
    From one of France's leading contemporary thinkers, "an astutely reasoned philosophical text, offering a revolutionary analysis of theistic religion" ( The Midwest Book Review). This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating th...

    $251.00

  • THE GROUND OF THE IMAGE
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    The renowned philosopher provides "noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion." — Journal of American Academy of Religion What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an imag...

    $229.00

  • THE GROUND OF THE IMAGE
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as "spectacle" and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple a...

    $229.00

  • LISTENING
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    "A book of philosophy very much captivated with music . . . an acoustemological elaboration of [Nancy's] theorization of difference." — Journal of the American Musicological Society In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard diff...

    $200.00

  • EXPECTATION
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    “A courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse” from one of France’s leading thinkers (Jean-Michel Rabaté, from the Introduction). Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than l...

    $229.00

  • SEXISTENCE
    JEAN-LUC NANCY
    Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, w...

    $329.00