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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.
The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call
Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing.
All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European
identity is to be open to multiplicity, but this very openness
could dissolve Europe as such. This book reflects on Europe and its
changing boundaries over the span of twenty centuries. A work of
philosophy, it consistently draws on concrete events. From ancient
Greece and Rome, to Christianity, to the Reformation, to the
national revolutions of the twentieth century, what we today call
"Europe" has been a succession of projects in the name of
"ecclesia" or community. Empire, Church, and EU: all have been
constructed in contrast to an Oriental "other." The stakes of
Europe, then, are as much metaphysical as political. Redefining a
series of key concepts such as world, place, transportation, and
the common, this book sheds light on Europe as process by engaging
with the most significant philosophical debates on the subject,
including the work of Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka, and Nancy.
Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble
in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most
influential thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous
socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political
speech, media representations of war, the democratic power of
assembling bodies, and the force of nonviolence. The volume Bodies
That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings
together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who
apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas in their own
research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it
takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's
scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the
volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary
relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to
key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the
vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's
humanities research.
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.
The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call
Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing.
All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European
identity is to be open to multiplicity, but this very openness
could dissolve Europe as such. This book reflects on Europe and its
changing boundaries over the span of twenty centuries. A work of
philosophy, it consistently draws on concrete events. From ancient
Greece and Rome, to Christianity, to the Reformation, to the
national revolutions of the twentieth century, what we today call
"Europe" has been a succession of projects in the name of ecclesia
or community. Empire, Church, and EU: all have been constructed in
contrast to an Oriental "other." The stakes of Europe, then, are as
much metaphysical as political. Redefining a series of key concepts
such as world, place, transportation, and the common, this book
sheds light on Europe as process by engaging with the most
significant philosophical debates on the subject, including the
work of Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka, and Nancy.
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