Jean-Luc Nancy Book order

Complete in English for the first time, a major philosopher’s most personal work and the source of an acclaimed film.

A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe

Originally published in the French in 2016 by âEditions Galilâee.

Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and reconsider our relations to ourselves and others through sex.

"A leading philosopher reflects on how our experience of the world in changing in these crisis-ridden times"-- Provided by publisher

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread by social interaction and the movement of people. What used to be divine has become human – all too human, as Nietzsche would say. But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are much more complex and harder to define than we had previously thought, and also discovering that the nature and exercise of political power are more complex than we may have thought. And this, argues Nancy, helps us to see why the term ‘biopolitics’ fails to grasp the conditions in which we now find ourselves. Life and politics challenge us together. Our scientific knowledge tells us that we are dependent only on our own technical power, but can we rely on technologies when knowledge itself includes uncertainties? If this is the case for technical power, it is much more so for political power, even as it presents itself as guided by objective data and responding to legitimate expectations. The virus is a magnifying glass that reveals the contradictions, limitations and frailties of the human condition, calling into question as never before our stubborn belief in progress and our hubristic sense of our own indestructibility as a species.

A leading philosopher argues that anti-Semitism is rooted in the structures of Western thought--

Exploring the complexities of judgment, this book delves into the absence of universal norms for defining right and wrong. It questions the necessity of laws and whether they can exist without a general framework. Through philosophical inquiry, it challenges readers to reconsider the foundations of morality and legality, prompting a deeper understanding of justice in a world where absolute standards may not exist.