Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking - Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense

Informationen zum Autor Peter Gratton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the coeditor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge . Klappentext Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy's thought. Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent project on the "deconstruction of Christianity." Focusing on Nancy's writings on globalization, Christianity, the plurality of art forms, his materialist ontology, as well as a range of contemporary issues, an international group of scholars provides not just inventive interpretations of Nancy's work but also essays taking on the most pressing issues of today. The collection brings to the fore the originality of his thinking and points to the future of continental philosophy. A previously unpublished interview with Nancy concludes the volume.

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• Authors: Peter (EDT)/ Morin Gratton
• Assisted by: Peter Gratton (Editor), Gratton Peter (Editor), Marie-Eve Morin (Editor), Morin Marie-Eve (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9781438442266
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4226-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Fr; SUNY Series in Contemporary Fr; Suny Contemporary French Thoug; SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism