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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