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This collection presents a sort of counter-history or
counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the
point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating
discourse would attribute the US as the source of that
globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on the
Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man at Johns Hopkins
University, this volume of essays serves as a reminder that the UK
has also been a principal motor of that globalization. The essays
take into account how French thought and literary theory have
institutionally taken shape in the UK from the 70s to today,
highlight aspects of French thought that have been of particular
pertinence or importance for scholars there, and outline how
researchers in the UK today are bringing French thought further in
terms of teaching and research in this twenty-first century. In
short, this volume traces how the country has been behind the
reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds
from the late 70s to the present.
This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s
thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary
activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or
breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who
had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This
“singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s
philosophical writings demands explication. In this book, some of
today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light
on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from
Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and
Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s
phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers. Contributors: Georges Van
Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher,
Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy,
and John H. Smith
This collection presents a sort of counter-history or
counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the
point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating
discourse would attribute the US as the source of that
globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on the
Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man at Johns Hopkins
University, this volume of essays serves as a reminder that the UK
has also been a principal motor of that globalization. The essays
take into account how French thought and literary theory have
institutionally taken shape in the UK from the 70s to today,
highlight aspects of French thought that have been of particular
pertinence or importance for scholars there, and outline how
researchers in the UK today are bringing French thought further in
terms of teaching and research in this twenty-first century. In
short, this volume traces how the country has been behind the
reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds
from the late 70s to the present.
In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss
how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses
about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates
our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their
conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from
relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and
jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms
and centrality to our being-in-the-world, sex lacks a clearly
defined essence. At the same time, they point to the potentiality
of literature to inscribe the senses of sex. In so doing, Nancy and
Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others
through sex in more sensitive, respectful, and humble ways without
bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.
In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss
how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses
about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates
our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their
conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from
relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and
jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms
and centrality to our being-in-the-world, sex lacks a clearly
defined essence. At the same time, they point to the potentiality
of literature to inscribe the senses of sex. In so doing, Nancy and
Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others
through sex in more sensitive, respectful, and humble ways without
bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.
What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These
forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that
have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze,
Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental
philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways
concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have
engaged this new generation with political theology and the new
pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative
realism and recent findings in neuroscience and evolutionary
psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this
challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry.
What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These
forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that
have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze,
Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental
philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways
concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have
engaged this new generation with political theology and the new
pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative
realism and recent findings in neuroscience and evolutionary
psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this
challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry.
This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy's
thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary
activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or
breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who
had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This
"singular plural" dimension of thought in Nancy's philosophical
writings demands explication. In this book, some of today's leading
scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy's
thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx,
Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating
"the sharing of voices," in Nancy's phrase, between Nancy and these
thinkers. Contributors: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter,
Rodolphe Gasche, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin,
Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith
This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure
than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community,
democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.
Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement,
Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject
has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent
turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy
movement, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject
today.
Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our
commitment to affirm others without acculturating their
differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response
finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy's question
of who comes after the subject.
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