Description: A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: This wonderfully economical text gives us Nancy's elaborate arguments regarding the body, touch, plurality, globalization, and worldliness. At stake for Nancy is an urgent reformulation of what it means to live together.---Timothy Murray, author of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art