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God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues

English

By (author): Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by: Sarah Clift

The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the little dialogues series at the Montreuils center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamins Aufklärung für Kinder radio talks, this series aims to awaken its young audience to pressing philosophical concerns.
Each talk in God, Justice, Love, Beauty explores what is at stake in these topics as essential moments in human experience. (Indeed, the book argues that they are constitutive of human experience.) Following each, Nancys audience is given a chance to engage with him in a process of philosophical questioning; the texts of these touching and probing exchanges are included in the volume.
Despite the fact that these lectures were delivered to an audience of children, the intellectual level they achievewhile remaining easily comprehensibleis astounding. No attempt is made to simplify Nancys positions or to resolve the complexities that arise in the course of the talks or the question periods that follow. The work of opening performed here is fully in keeping with the strategy of Nancys philosophy as a whole. Thus, for readers unfamiliar with his work, God, Justice, Love, Beauty will function as an excellent introduction to Nancys larger corpus.
As varied as the individual talks are, they share the motif of incalculability or the immeasurable. Broadly speaking, one could say that the various ways in which Nancy approaches this motif exemplify his deconstructive approach to think of human existence. As well, those treatments exemplify his conviction that the task of thinking is to develop original ways of communicating the incalculable.
God, Justice, Love, Beauty is thus a skillful reminder that philosophy is important to all of us. The book is also a model of intellectual generosity and openness. Seamlessly moving from Schwarzenegger to Plato, from Kant, Roland Barthes, and Caravaggio to Caillou, Harry Potter, and the pages of Gala magazine, Nancys wide-ranging references bear witness to his commitment to think of culture in its broadest sense.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jul 2011
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780823234257

About Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy (19402021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centurys foremost thinkers of politics art and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books including Being Singular Plural The Ground of the Image Corpus The Disavowed Community and Sexistence. Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College Halifax.

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