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.
General
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Georges Van Den Abbeele
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5315-0330-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5315-0330-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781531503307 |
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