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Description of  Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancys thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This singular plural dimension of thought in Nancys philosophical writings demands explication. In this book, some of todays leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancys thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating the sharing of voices, in Nancys phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers. Read more