BEING SINGULAR PLURAL

"[An] imporatant and timely book."--Philosophy in Review
"Nancy is indeed one of the most interesting thinkers in France today."--Common Knowledge

About the author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Among his many books are The Muses (Stanford, 1996), The Birth to Presence (Stanford, 1993), and The Experience of Freedom (Stanford, 1993).

Summary

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy
• Assisted by: Anne O'Byrne (Translation), Robert Richardson (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780804739740
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3974-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day