Jean-Luc Nancy - The Gravity of Thought [made in istanbul]

pebbles, mothers: imagination dead, imagine!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/rewmgi4qjtu/THE_GRAVITY_OF_THOUGHT__NANCY.pdf

Jean-Luc Nancy - The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus [made in istanbul]

(this early work must be read alongside The Subject of Philosophy by Lacoue-Labarthe. the question of WITZ is the cleavage)

Why is it that the modern conception of literature begins with one of the worst writers of the philosophical tradition? Such is the paradoxical question that lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Nancy’s highly original and now-classic study of the role of language in the critical philosophy of Kant. While Kant did not turn his attention very often to the philosophy of language, Nancy demonstrates to what extent he was anything but oblivious to it. He shows, in fact, that the question of philosophical style, of how to write critical philosophy, goes to the core of Kant’s attempt to articulate the limits, once and for all, that would establish human reason in its autonomy and freedom. He also shows how this properly philosophical program, the very pinnacle of the Enlightenment, leads Kant to posit literature as its other by way of what is here called the syncope, and how this other of philosophy, entirely its product, cannot be said to exist outside of metaphysics in its accomplishment. This subtle, unprecedented reading of Kant demonstrates the continued importance of reflection on the relation between philosophy and literature, indeed, why any commitment to Enlightenment must consider and confront this partition anew.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ykzmnijqi5j/THE_DISCOURSE_OF_THE_SYNCOPE.pdf

Jean-Luc Nancy - The Birth to Presence [made in istanbul]

spacing as such
thing things, world worlds, human humans

http://www.mediafire.com/file/doox3hjzinm/THE_BIRTH_OF_PRESENCE__JEAN_LUC_NANCY.pdf




http://books.google.com/books?id=QY4TQoSzCPAC&pg=PP1&dq=The+Birth+to+Presence&ei=e13xSs_NKpTazQSSg_maAQ&hl=tr#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Jean-Luc Nancy made a comment on a post published here (not joking)

Jean-Luc Nancy (yes he, himself) made a comment here

" the photo of mine with the article is from the photographer'

ANNE IMMELE

please have her name shown near the photo - thank you

jean-luc nancy"


This made me return to blogging. Thanks.
I don't know how I silenced my sneeze since I saw it for the first time.

Of the Sublime: Presence in Question [made in istanbul]

Librett's labor yielded such a masterpiece that its invisibility is not without reason. In this wonderfully worked out volume, he translated Cerisy essays by

Jean-luc Nancy
Philippe Lacoue-labarthe
Jean-François Courtine (very rare in english)
Michel Deguy
(the goddess) Elaine Escobar
Lyotard
Louis Marin
Rogozinski

burn down the letters, let pages get blind, for sublime is a terror and syncope, there remains for you, the task: laugh.

link

Jean-Luc Nancy - Dis-Enclosure: Deconstruction of Christianity [made in istanbul]

This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity as hope. The “religion that provided the exit from religion,” as he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality. In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet imminent.In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a self-enclosed world—in which humans are no longer mortals facing an immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the time of their own decline—parousia stands as a question. Can we venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and without our so-immanent world?The deconstruction of Christianity that Nancy proposes is neither a game nor a strategy. It is an invitation to imagine a strange faith that enacts the inadequation of life to itself. Our lives overflow the self-contained boundaries of their biological and sociological interpretations. Out of this excess, wells up a fragile, overlooked meaning that is beyond both confessionalism and humanism.

link

read at least "blanchots god"

Jean-Luc Nancy - The Creation of the World or Globalization

MADE IN ISTANBUL

FARK YARALARI GURURLA SUNAR:

The Creation of the World or Globalization
(SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought)
by Jean-Luc Nancy

Francois Raffoul (Translator), David Pettigrew (Translator)

# Paperback: 129 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (February 8, 2007)

Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-forming), Nancy undertakes a rethinking of what "world-forming" might mean. At stake in this distinction is for him nothing less than two possible destinies of our humanity, and of our time. On the one hand, with globalization, there is the uniformity produced by a global economical and technological logic leading to the contrary of an inhabitable world, "the un-world" (l'im-monde)--as Nancy refers to it--an un-world that entails social disintegration, misery, and injustice. And, on the other hand, there is the possibility of an authentic world-forming, that is, of a making of the world and of a making sense that Nancy calls a "creation" of the world. Nancy understands such world-forming in terms of an inexhaustible struggle for justice. This book is an important contribution by Nancy to a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of globalization and a further development on his earlier works on our being-in-common, justice, and a-theological existence.

"Graced by a lucid introduction from his superb translators, Jean-Luc Nancy's The Creation of the World or Globalization plots the creative world-forming possibilities by which, in the name of a certain justice, the nihilism of globalization may be resisted. The future of the world hangs in the balance; Nancy makes a brilliant contribution to thinking new beginnings." -- David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

küre-

Jean-Luc Nancy - A Finite Thinking

MADE IN ISTANBUL

A Finite Thinking
(Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Jean-Luc Nancy

# Paperback: 348 pages
# Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2003)

This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger’s Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also confronts other important philosophers, such as Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida. The projects of these pivotal thinkers of finitude are relentlessly pushed to their extreme, with respect both to their unexpected horizons and to their as yet unexplored analytical potential. A Finite Thinking shows that, paradoxically, where the thought of finitude comes into its own it frees itself, not only to reaffirm a certain transformed and transformative presence, but also for a non-religious reconsideration and reaffirmation of certain theologemes, as well as of the body, heart, and love. This book shows the literary dimension of philosophical discourse, providing important enabling ideas for scholars of literature, cultural theory, and philosophy.

via dolorosa

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject

MADE IN ISTANBUL



Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject
(Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
by John Martis

# Hardcover: 316 pages
# Publisher: Fordham University Press (November 1, 2005)

This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe’s thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery, he places Lacoue-Labarthe’s achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot. John Martis, S.J. teaches at the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne, Australia, as a member of Jesuit Theological College, where he is Professor of Philosophy and Academic Principal.

here is the book as I promised here.

Bonus Track: Sylvia Plath reads "November Graveyard"
http://www.divshare.com/download/3615344-e73

JL Nancy - The Deleuzian Fold of Thought

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Deleuzian Fold of Thought, in (ed) Paul Patton, The Deleuze Critical Reader, Blackwell, 1996, pp. 107-113.pdf

mevzu var abi

Jean-Luc Nancy - The Ground of the Image

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as "spectacle" and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces.

What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image‹which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image‹which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin?

In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind usto them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies.

into the ground!

1 dænken:

NANCY said...

the photo of mine with the article is from the photographer'

ANNE IMMELE

please have her name shown near the photo - thank you

jean-luc nancy

The Theory Of Literature in German Romanticism

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

&

Jean-Luc Nancy

The Literary Absolute

The Theory Of Literature In German Romanticism

from Preface: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nancy/nancy-the-literary-absolute.html
"O Genoa, willingly would I divide myself into thee And a wave, in thy port, roll with the waves, Ripen in the company of thy golden oranges, Become the marble and audacity of thy porticos; A hero, I would rally thy band of maidens, I would tear the veil from their fiery eyes, I would revel in cups of nectar, In all of them, tarrying at none. Done with vague longing and hazy dreams! Let me delight in and embrace the stone statue, The Cytherean, and not her reflection. I dreamt--when from the foam, upsurging Came the goddess in a fragrance of roses. A voice resounded: "I form and transfigure!" Zacharias Werner From Selected Writings, published by his friends( Grimma, 1840- 1841), vol 1, 174. "

thou!