Subject: March pick Nancy
From: Dr.Wolfgang Schirmacher (wolfphilo@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 23:55:40 CST
The show must go on.
My pick for the month of March is Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World.
University of Minnesota Press 1997, and I'll expect your comments in April.
(By the way, LATE notes on prior readings are always welcome.)
As by-texts from CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY anthology I'd like to suggest:
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Kinship (305-10)
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (391-405 - yes, please
re-read it)
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community (429-40
Slavoj Zizek, The Nation Thing (447-52)
From our web site:
Jean-Luc Nancy
"I wonder if it's possible to say there are people who are more - or less -
real than others.
Photography is obsessed with showing the real, its vulnerability, its grace,
its fleetingness.
Art is open to the fragmentation of sense that existence is. It was always
open to this. But today, the yawning of this opening distends and even
tears it from one end to the other: on the scale of an in-finity of sense
that we expect to respond for us. Not, first of all, as an 'aesthetic'
response but, rather, as an unprecedented art of being in the world.
That being is absolutely being-with - this is what we must think. With is
the first mark of being, the mark of the singular plurality of the origin or
of the origin within the With."
1999-2000 ACADEMIC YEAR
SUMMER RESIDENCY August 6 -27, 2000
Jean-Luc Nancy is a professor of political philosophy and media aesthetics
at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches
an Intensive
Summer Seminar:
FREEDOM AND THE COMMUNITARY EXPERIENCE (3 credits) Examining the
absence/presence of community with regard to the experience of freedom,
discourse, myth and the individual.
Jean-Luc Nancy, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg,
and a significant voice in the international cultural debate on
post-modernism and beyond. Trained in German languages and literature, he
combines literary theory and Continental philosophy with a new vision of the
sociopolitical dimension. Author of The Birth to Presence; The Literary
Absolute (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe); The Title of the Letter: A Reading
of Lacan (with Lacoue-Labarthe); Inoperative Community; The Experience of
Freedom; The Muses; The Sense of the World; ETRE SINGULIER PLURIEL. Nancy on
the web.
Links:
http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/13ch.dallmayr.html
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.995/review-4.995
http://www.parerga.de/georges1.htm
http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/nancylacoue-labarth.html
http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/lacouelabarthenancy.html
http://www.parerga.de/nancy.htm
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