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Being Singular Plural

Name: Being Singular Plural
Author: Nancy Jean-Luc

Auteur: Jean-Luc Nancy

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jean-Luc Nancy Nancy Jean-Luc

Engels
Paperback
9780804739757
01 november 2000
232 pagina's

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This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 november 2000
Aantal pagina's: 232
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jean-Luc Nancy
Tweede Auteur: Nancy Jean-Luc
Hoofduitgeverij: Stanford University Press

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler: Robert Richardson
Tweede Vertaler: Anne E. O'Byrne
Co Vertaler(s): David Webb

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Editie: New title
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 141 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 141 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 306 g

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EAN: 9780804739757

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Categorieën: Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

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