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The Sense of the World (Paperback, 2)
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The Sense of the World (Paperback, 2)
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An essential exploration of sense and meaning. Is there a "world"
anymore, let alone any "sense" to it? Acknowledging the lack of
meaning in our time, and the lack of a world at the center of
meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a rigorous
critique of the many discourses-from philosophy and political
science to psychoanalysis and art history-that talk and write their
way around these gaping absences in our lives. In an original style
befitting his search for a new mode of thought, Nancy offers
fragmentary readings of writers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx,
Levinas, Lacan, Derrida, and Deleuze insofar as their work reflects
his concern with sense and the world. Rather than celebrate or
bemoan the loss of meaning or attempt to install a new one, his
book seeks to reposition both sense and the world between the
presence and absence of meaning, between objectivity and
subjectivity. Nancy's project entails a reconception of the field
of philosophy itself, a rearticulation of philosophical practice.
Neither recondite nor abstract, it is concerned with the existence
and experience of freedom-the actuality of existence as experienced
by contemporary communities of citizens, readers, and writers.
Combining aesthetic, political, and philosophical considerations to
convey a sense of the world between meaning and reality, ideal
content and material form, this book offers a new way of
understanding-and responding to-"the end of the world." Jean-Luc
Nancy teaches at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg.
His books in English include The Literary Absolute (with Philip
Lacoue-Labarthe, 1988), The Inoperative Community (Minnesota,
1991), The Birth to Presence (1993), The Experience of Freedom
(1993), and The Muses (1996). Jeffrey S. Librett is associate
professor of modern languages and literatures at Loyola University
of Chicago.
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