Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point,
Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the
philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to
Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book "Corpus" he discusses in
detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl,
Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis
Chretien are discussed, as are Rene Descartes, Diderot, Maine de
Biran, Felix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others.
The scope of Derrida's deliberations makes this book a virtual
encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body).
Derrida gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in
Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy's essay
"Deconstruction of Christianity," devotes a section of the book to
the sense of touch in the Gospels. Another section concentrates on
"the flesh," as treated by Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake.
Derrida's critique of intuitionism, notably in the phenomenological
tradition, is one of the guiding threads of the book.
"On Touching" includes a wealth of notes that provide an extremely
useful bibliographical resource. Personal and detached all at once,
this book, one of the first published in English translation after
Jacques Derrida's death, serves as a useful and poignant
retrospective on the work of the philosopher. A tribute by Jean-Luc
Nancy, written a day after Jacques Derrida's death, is an added
feature.
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