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Author:   Peter Gratton ,  Marie-Eve Morin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781438442273

ISBN 10:   1438442270
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   01 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction I. Expositions of the World: Creation, Globalization, and the Legacies of Christianity 1. The Creation of the World Francois Raffoul 2. No Other Place to Be: Globalization, Monotheism, and Salut in Nancy Christina Smerick 3. Christianity's Other Resource: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Faith Alfonso Cariolato 4. Deconstruction and Globalization: The World According to Jean-Luc Nancy Martin McQuillan II. Expositions of Ontology, or a Post-Deconstructive Realism 5. Nancy's Materialist Ontology Anne O'Byrne 6. On Interface: Nancy's Weights and Masses Graham Harman 7. The Speculative Challenge and Nancy's Post-Deconstructive Realism Peter Gratton III. Expositions of the Political: Justice, Freedom, Equality 8. Archi-ethics, Justice and the Suspension of History in the Writing of Jean-Luc Nancy B. C. Hutchens 9. Jean-Luc Nancy on the Political after Heidegger and Schmitt Andrew Norris 10. The Task of Justice David Pettigrew IV. Expositions of Sense: Art and the Limits of Representation 11. De-monstration and the Sens of Art Stephen Barker 12. Poetry and Plurality: On a Part of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Muses William Watkin 13. Forbidding, Knowing, Continuing: On Representing the Shoah Andrew Benjamin V. Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy: The Commerce of Plural Thinking Bibliography of Jean-Luc Nancy's Works in English List of Contributors Index

Reviews

""This invaluable collection engages with the full range of Nancy's philosophical concerns to offer a series of enriching and highly illuminating critical perspectives. It demonstrates the importance of Nancy's work for philosophical reflection on the contemporary world."" - Ian James, author of The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy

"""This invaluable collection engages with the full range of Nancy's philosophical concerns to offer a series of enriching and highly illuminating critical perspectives. It demonstrates the importance of Nancy's work for philosophical reflection on the contemporary world."" - Ian James, author of The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy"

This invaluable collection engages with the full range of Nancy's philosophical concerns to offer a series of enriching and highly illuminating critical perspectives. It demonstrates the importance of Nancy's work for philosophical reflection on the contemporary world. - Ian James, author of The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy

Author Information

Peter Gratton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of The State of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Marie-Eve Morin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

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