Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy - Couverture souple

Van Den Abbeele, Georges

 
9781531503307: Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy
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ISBN 10 : 1531503306 ISBN 13 : 9781531503307
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical project as an inquiry into the limits or finitude of philosophy itself, where it is interrupted, and as a practice of critical intervention where philosophy serves to interrupt otherwise unquestioned ways of thinking. Nancy's interruption of philosophy, Van Den Abbeele argues, reveals the limits of what philosophy is and what it can do, its apocalyptic end and its endless renewal, its Sisyphean interruption between the bounds of infinitely replicating sense and the conceptual vanishing point that is singularity.

In examinations of Nancy's foundational rereading of Descartes's cogito as iterative, his formal experimentations with the genres of philosophical writing, the account of "retreat" in understanding the political, and the interruptive play of sense and singularity in writings on the body, sexuality, and aesthetics, Van Den Abbeele offers a fresh account of one of our major thinkers as well as a provocative inquiry into what philosophy can do.

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À propos de l?auteur

Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1531503306
ISBN 13 
9781531503307
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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ISBN 10 :  1531503292 ISBN 13 :  9781531503291
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2023
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