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Corpus III - Cruor and Other Writings (Hardcover)
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Corpus III - Cruor and Other Writings (Hardcover)
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A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of
the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental
Europe This landmark volume brings into English Jean-Luc Nancy's
last completed work and concludes his remarkable philosophical
reflections on the body, a project he began almost thirty years
ago. Taking the body as an intersection of pulsing life and
destructive cruelty on a global scale, Nancy's account becomes more
vivid, more physical, than ever, even as it ventures into language
that is as lyrical as it is profound. This vividness is manifest in
blood: as it flows, in all its pulsing and forceful circulation,
and as it spills, in the cruelty of existences confronted daily by
countless destructions. This can be described as sanguis and cruor,
the two Latin words for blood's intermingled but distinct aspects.
This distinction allows Nancy to highlight an almost mystical sense
of the body (yet one that remains soberly on this side of its
manifest insistence), alongside the cruelty that pervades our
world-a world whose very existence is threatened by its reduction
to mere objects. The exceptional writings brought together in
Corpus III comprise a masterful work of philosophy that marries
rigorous erudition-on Freud, Nietzsche, and others-with rich poetic
language and an actual poem. Nancy's thought opens the body onto
its own unaccountable origins, its plural singularities, its
enmeshed instantiations, and its excessive irreducibles, which are
also the elusive excesses of language. Whereas in earlier texts
Nancy has referred to this excess as poetry, here he performs it in
the form of a poem, in the extraordinary hymn entitled Stoma. While
the publication of a poem by Nancy is a notable event, equally
noteworthy is a remarkable essay entitled "Scandalous Death," in
which Nancy meditated on a subject that was to come to him too soon
after. Above all, the book is crucial for bringing into English
Cruor, the very last book Nancy completed before his death, an
evocative meditation offered by a great thinker on the complex
conditions of his own-and our-singular survival.
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