Intoxication

Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities-mind and body, reason and desire, logic and eros-Nancy's subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius-I am, I exist-drunk.

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Jean-Luc Nancy

Summary

Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy’s sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities—mind and body, reason and desire, logic and eros—Nancy’s subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius—I am, I exist—drunk.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc/ Armstrong Nancy
• Assisted by: Philip Armstrong (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780823267736
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6773-6
• No. of pages: 72
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies