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In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life's work. But like Schlegel's historian-"a prophet facing backwards"-Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought. This journey through Nancy's thought is interspersed with accounts of places and events and deeply personal details. The result is at once unpretentious and encyclopedic: Concepts are described with remarkable nuance and specificity, but in a language that comes close to that of everyday life. As Nancy surveys his work, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts. In the end, this is a book about the possibility of a world-a world that must be greeted because it is, as Nancy says, already here.
Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and
Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no
longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe
anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we
appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign,
hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and
networks of cross-national assemblages and we do this at the same
time as we form multinational corporations that no longer pay taxes
to the state. In such a time, one of the world's most eminent
philosophers and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient
art of cosmology. Nancy and Barrau's work is a study of life,
plural worlds, and what the authors call the struction or
rebuilding of these worlds.
In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life's work. But like Schlegel's historian-"a prophet facing backwards"-Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought. This journey through Nancy's thought is interspersed with accounts of places and events and deeply personal details. The result is at once unpretentious and encyclopedic: Concepts are described with remarkable nuance and specificity, but in a language that comes close to that of everyday life. As Nancy surveys his work, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts. In the end, this is a book about the possibility of a world-a world that must be greeted because it is, as Nancy says, already here.
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