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Being Singular Plural

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean-Luc Nancy, Robert Richardson (Translator), Anne O'Byrne (Translator)Series:Meridian: Crossing AestheticsPublish date:2000-11-01Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804739757ISBN-10:804739757UPC:9780804739757Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:ModernSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC79XNZFX4

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural."

One of the strongest strands in Nancy's philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or subjectivity. The fundamental argument of the book is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence. Nancy thinks of this "being-with" not as a comfortable enclosure in a pre-existing group, but as a mutual abandonment and exposure to each other, one that would preserve the "I" and its freedom in a mode of imagining community as neither a "society of spectacle" nor via some form of authenticity.

The five shorter essays impressively translate the philosophical insight of "Being Singular Plural" into sophisticated discussions of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity politics, the Gulf War, and the tragic plight of Sarajevo. The essay "Eulogy for the Mêlée," in particular, is a brilliant discussion of identity and hybridism that resonates with many contemporary social concerns.

As Nancy moves through the exposition of his central concern, being-with, he engages a number of other important issues, including current notions of the "other" and "self" that are relevant to psychoanalytic, political, and multicultural concepts. He also offers astonishingly original reinterpretations of major philosophical positions, such as Nietzsche's doctrine of "eternal recurrence," Descartes's "cogito," and the nature of language and meaning.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804739757ISBN-10:804739757UPC:9780804739757Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:ModernSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC79XNZFX4
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).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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