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Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex--'neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.' If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of 'sex itself, ' Nancy uncovers what we've missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound--and profoundly necessary--meditation on sex and being. --Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience. --Elissa Marder, Emory University

Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience. -- Elissa Marder, Emory University Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex-'neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.' If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of 'sex itself,' Nancy uncovers what we've missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound-and profoundly necessary-meditation on sex and being. -- Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

"""Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex--'neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.' If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of 'sex itself, ' Nancy uncovers what we've missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound--and profoundly necessary--meditation on sex and being.""---Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking ""Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience.""---Elissa Marder, Emory University"

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Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century’s foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis. Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Catherine Malabou, Étienne Balibar, and Anne Dufourmantelle.

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