3. Nancy and Hegel: Freedom, Democracy and the Loss of the Power to Signify

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents vii
3. List of Contributors ix
4. Introduction: Sense, Praxis, and the Political 1
5. Event of Sense: Being-With, Ethics, Democracy
6. 1. ‘We Must Become What We Are’: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology as Ethos and Praxis 21
7. 2. Badiou and Nancy: Political Animals 43
8. 3. Nancy and Hegel: Freedom, Democracy and the Loss of the Power to Signify 66
9. 4. The Event of Democracy 88
10. 5. Thinking Nancy’s ‘Political Philosophy’ 116
11. Everything is Not Political
12. 6. Image-Politics: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontological Rehabilitation of the Image 139
13. 7. Immanent Surface: Art and the Demand for Signification 164
14. 8. The Separated Gesture: Partaking in the Inoperative Praxis of the Already-Unmade 192
15. The Political Between Two Infinities: Evaluations
16. 9. Im-mundus or Nancy’s Globalising-World- Formation 219
17. 10. Precarity/Abandonment 245
18. 11. ‘A Struggle between Two Infinities’: Jean-Luc Nancy on Marx’s Revolution and Ours 272
19. Index 290