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Intoxication

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By (author): Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by: Philip Armstrong

From Platos Symposium to Hegels truth as a Bacchanalian revel, from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.
For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophys sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualitiesreason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros.
Taking its point of departure from Baudelaires categorical imperative to understand modernitybe drunk alwaysNancys little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary banquet addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred spirits involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciationto the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, Nancys subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebriusI am, I existdrunk.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2015
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780823267736

About Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy (19402021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de 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. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.

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