Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy

Author:   Georges Van Den Abbeele
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   07 November 2023
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Author:   Georges Van Den Abbeele
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781531503307


ISBN 10:   1531503306
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   07 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations | vii Introduction: From the Interruption of Sense to the Poetics of Finitude | 1 1 Descartes’s Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time | 23 2 Monograms: Writing Singular Plural | 49 3 The “Singular Logic of the Retreat”: Interruptions of the Political | 78 4 Corpus Interruptus: Uncommon Sense and the Singular Crossings of Eros, Logos, and Tekhnè | 115 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 197 Index | 209

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This book challenges and inspires its readers, leaving them with a better understanding of one of contemporary philosophy's central figures, as well as a renewed appreciation for the infinity of philosophical enquiry. For anyone interested in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy or in contemporary philosophy more broadly, Sense and Singularity is an essential and transformative read.-- ""Heythrop Journal"" Sense and Singularity is a remarkable study of the complex and original thought of this provocative thinker. Each of its chapters is a model of careful reading deftly carried along by Van Den Abbeele's central argument that Nancy is a thinker of the interruption of philosophy at the limit of sense. There are few studies as comprehensive as this one, which reads Nancy's work from the earliest writings to the last publications. But above all Sense and Singularity makes compelling sense of the adventure of Nancy's thought at the limit of sense.-- ""Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California"" Sense and Singularity is a scintillating, brilliant assessment of the end and ends of a great thinker and writer. Van Den Abbeele explicates patiently, meticulously and often with a novel take, Nancy's variegated writings. The manuscript is a labor of love and a tour de force.-- ""Verena Conley, Harvard University""


Sense and Singularity is a remarkable study of the complex and original thought of this provocative thinker. Each of its chapters is a model of careful reading deftly carried along by Van Den Abbeele's central argument that Nancy is a thinker of the interruption of philosophy at the limit of sense. There are few studies as comprehensive as this one, which reads Nancy's work from the earliest writings to the last publications. But above all Sense and Singularity makes compelling sense of the adventure of Nancy's thought at the limit of sense. -- Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California Sense and Singularity is a scintillating, brilliant assessment of the end and ends of a greater thinker and writer. Van Den Abbeele explicates patiently, meticulously and often with a novel take, Nancy's variegated writings. The manuscript is a labor of love and a tour de force. -- Verena Conley, Harvard University


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Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.

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