Author: Jean-Luc Nancy

What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounte...

Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern...

Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word? In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers...

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a ...

Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a ...

This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives t...

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spre...

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spre...

Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing i...

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous com...

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous com...

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing...

Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast...

From Platos Symposium to Hegels truth as a Bacchanalian revel, from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent rel...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartess wri...

This second volume in Nancys The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of...

This second volume in Nancys The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of...

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing...

In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themescommunity, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics...