Präsentiert durch Paradigm Publishing Services
Fordham University Press
Buch
Lizenziert
Nicht lizenziert
Erfordert eine Authentifizierung
The City in the Distance
-
-
Übersetzt von:
-
Vorwort von:
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2024
Über dieses Buch
FINALIST, 38th ANNUAL FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE
Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy
In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
Far from an abstract account, Nancy attends in the most concrete way possible to the workings of a city not typically taken as paradigmatic, Los Angeles. As Jean-Christophe Bailly suggests in his foreword, Nancy joins Walter Benjamin in thinking the city not from an external vantage point, but on its own terms.
• In this book, the city becomes a lens through which to explore Nancy's best known concept, that of being singular-plural—that is, the necessity of living together in community while at the same time resisting the fascistic pull that would give that community some singular, mystical essence.
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
Contributor: Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century’s foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.
---
Contributor: Cory Stockwell
Cory Stockwell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His translations include books by Mariette Navarro and Pascal Bruckner.
---
Contributor: Jean-Christophe Bailly
Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists’ catalogs in French.
Rezensionen
Nancy’s little book helps us dispel the notion that there is a primordial stability of home to be defended against the disruptions of migration. For Nancy, the life of the city exemplifies the mobility or ‘passing by’ that is characteristic of ‘being with’ as an ontological condition.---Rafael Sánchez, Graduate Institute of Geneva
---
Written in a tone that is always poetic, at times even lyrical, The City in the Distance is thought-provoking and a pleasure to read. As a philosophical and writerly meditation, a research-creation of sorts, the book invests a place (here the city of Los Angeles) with words and language in order to make it produce its own space and time.---Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
Fachgebiete
-
PDF downloadenÖffentlich zugänglich
Frontmatter
i -
PDF downloadenÖffentlich zugänglich
Contents
v -
PDF downloadenÖffentlich zugänglich
Foreword The City beyond the Place
vii -
PDF downloadenÖffentlich zugänglich
Preface The Uncivil City
xi -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
The City in the Distance
1 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
First Part (1987)
3 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Second Part (1999)
16 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Images of the City
36 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Traffic/Click
60 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
The Two Futures of the City
82 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
An Art of the City
90 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Rumoration
111 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Moments of the City
114 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Acknowledgments
119 -
PDF downloadenErfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziertLizenziert
Notes
121
Informationen zur Veröffentlichung
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
eBook veröffentlicht am:
30. September 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781531508999
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
eBook ISBN:
9781531508999
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
