Nancy and the Political
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Sanja Dejanovic
About this book
Examines Jean-Luc Nancy’s latest contributions to the study of the political
Jean-Luc Nancy's latest contributions to philosophy compel us to ask: what sort of politics do we have once we are exposed to the finitude of sense? The contributors to this collection illuminate some of the most challenging aspects of Nancy's thought, making previously unexplored connections and offering spirited interpretations.
Focussed around three core themes - capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics - these 12 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought, and collectively situate it within a broader intellectual context which includes engagements with Badiou, Rancière, Foucault, Agamben and Lefort. It is an essential read for anyone interested in current trends in political philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory and social and political thought.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Introduction: Sense, Praxis, and the Political
1 - Event of Sense: Being-With, Ethics, Democracy
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1. ‘We Must Become What We Are’: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology as Ethos and Praxis
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2. Badiou and Nancy: Political Animals
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3. Nancy and Hegel: Freedom, Democracy and the Loss of the Power to Signify
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4. The Event of Democracy
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5. Thinking Nancy’s ‘Political Philosophy’
116 - Everything is Not Political
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6. Image-Politics: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontological Rehabilitation of the Image
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7. Immanent Surface: Art and the Demand for Signification
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8. The Separated Gesture: Partaking in the Inoperative Praxis of the Already-Unmade
192 - The Political Between Two Infinities: Evaluations
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9. Im-mundus or Nancy’s Globalising-World- Formation
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10. Precarity/Abandonment
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11. ‘A Struggle between Two Infinities’: Jean-Luc Nancy on Marx’s Revolution and Ours
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Index
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