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Jean-Luc Nancy (26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.

Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.

In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with reopening the question of the ground of community and politics with his work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community). Blanchot and Agamben responded to this work with The Unavowable Community (1983) and The Coming Community (1983) respectively. One of the very few monographs that Jacques Derrida ever wrote on a contemporary philosopher is On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy.

Film theory

Nancy's text L'intrus formed the basis for French director Claire Denis's film of the same name.

He has written extensively on film, including The Evidence of Film, a short work on Abbas Kiarostami.

Nancy appears in the film The Ister, based on Martin Heidegger's 1942 lectures on Friedrich Hölderlin's poem "Der Ister" (published as Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"). The film focuses on the relation of politics, technology and myth.

Nancy has developed three films in conjunction with artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell. He appears in their 2009 film Outlandish: 'Strange Foreign Bodies', which also features a text he wrote specifically for the project, Étranges Corps Étrangers. Nancy contributed a poem, 'Oh The Animals of Language' to Warnell's 2014 feature-length film 'Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air'. Warnell and Nancy worked on a new text-film collaboration which was completed in 2017, 'The Flying Proletarian'.

Bibliography

Titles in French

• La Remarque spéculative (Un bon mot de Hegel). Paris: Galilée, 1973.
• La titre de la lettre. Paris: Galilée, 1973 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Le Discours de la syncope. I. Logodaedalus. Paris: Flammarion, 1975.
• L'absolu littéraire. Théorie de la littérature du romantisme allemand. Paris: Seuil, 1978 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Ego sum. Paris: Flammarion, 1979.
• Les Fins de l'homme à partir du travail de Jacques Derrida: colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980. 1981 (ed., with Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Rejouer le politique. 1981 (ed., with Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Le partage des voix. Paris: Galilée, 1982.
• La retrait du politique. 1983 (ed., with Lacoue-Labarthe).
• La communauté désoeuvrée. Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1983.
• L'Impératif catégorique. Paris: Flammarion, 1983.
• L'oubli de la philosophie. Paris: Galilée, 1986.
• Des lieux divins. Mauvezin: T.E.R, 1987.
• L'expérience de la liberté. Paris: Galilée, 1988.
• Une Pensée finie. Paris: Galilée, 1990.
• Le poids d'une pensée. Québec: Le griffon d'argile, 1991.
• Le mythe nazi. La tour d'Aigues: L'Aube, 1991 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, revised edition; originally published as Les méchanismes du fascisme, 1981).
• La comparution (politique à venir). Paris: Bourgois, 1991 (with Jean-Chrisophe Bailly).
• Corpus. Paris: Métailié, 1992.
• Le sens du monde. Paris: Galilée, 1993.
• Les Muses. Paris: Galilée, 1994.
• Être singulier pluriel. Paris: Galilée, 1996.
• Hegel. L'inquiétude du négatif. Paris: Hachette, 1997.
• L'Intrus. Paris: Galilée, 2000.
• Le regard du portrait. Paris: Galilée, 2000.
• Conloquium, in Roberto Esposito, Communitas. trad. de Nadine Le Lirzin, Paris: PUF, 2000.
• La pensée dérobée. Paris: Galilée, 2001.
• The evidence of film. Bruxelles: Yves Gevaert, 2001.
• La création du monde ou la mondialisation. Paris: Galilée, 2002.
• À l’écoute. Paris: Galilée, 2002.
• Nus sommes. La peau des images. Paris: Klincksieck, 2003 (with Federico Ferrari).
• Noli me tangere. Paris: Bayard, 2003.
• "L'extension de l'âme". Metz: Le Portique, 2003.
• "Lil y a' du rapport sexuel". Paris: Galilée, 2003.
• La déclosion (Déconstruction du Christianisme 1). Paris: Galilée, 2005.
• Sur le commerce des pensées: Du livre et de la librairie. Paris: Galilée, 2005.
• Iconographie de l'auteur. Paris: Galilée, 2005 (with Federico Ferrari).
• Tombe de sommeil. Paris: Galilée, 2007.
• Juste impossible. Paris: Bayard, 2007.
• À plus d'un titre: Jacques Derrida. Paris: Galilée, 2007.
• Vérité de la democratie. Paris: Galilée, 2008.
• Le poids d'une pensée, l'approche. Strasbourg: La Phocide, 2008.
• Je t'aime, un peu, beaucoup, passionnément.... Paris: Bayard Centurion, 2008.
• Démocratie, dans quel état ?, with Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross and Slavoj Žižek, La Fabrique, 2009.
• L'Adoration, Paris, Galilée, 2010.
• Atlan : les détrempes, Paris, Hazan, 2010.
• À Vengeance ? de Robert Antelme, in Robert Antelme, Vengeance ?. Hermann, 2010.
• La Ville au loin. Strasbourg: La Phocide, 2011.
• Maurice Blanchot, passion politique. Paris: Galilée, 2011.
• Politique et au-delà. Interview with Philipp Armstrong and Jason E. Smith, Paris: Galilée, 2011.
• Dans quels mondes vivons-nous?, with Aurélien Barrau, Paris: Galilée, 2011.
• L’Équivalence des catastrophes (Après Fukushima), Paris: Galilée, 2012.
• La Possibilité d'un monde, Paris: Les petits platons, 2013.
• Jamais le mot "créateur"..., with Simon Hantaï, Paris, Galilée, 2013.
• L’Autre Portrait, Paris, Galilée, 2013.
• Être singulier pluriel, nouvelle édition augmentée, Paris, Galilée, 2013.
• Le Philosophe boiteux, Le Havre, Franciscopolis/Presses du réel, 2014.
• La Jouissance. Questions de caractère, with Adèle Van Reeth, Paris, Plon, 2014.
• La Communauté désavouée, Paris, Galilée, 2014.
• Inventions à deux voix. Entretiens, with Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Paris, Éditions du Félin, 2015.
• Proprement dit : Entretien sur le mythe, with Mathilde Girard, Paris, Lignes, 2015.
• Journal des Phéniciennes, Paris, Christian Bourgois, 2015.
• Banalité de Heidegger, Paris, Galilée, 2015.
• Demande : Littérature et philosophie, Paris, Galilée, 2015.
• Entretien sur le christianisme (Paris, 2008), with Bernard Stiegler and Alain Jugnon, in: Bernard Stiegler, Dans la disruption : Comment ne pas devenir fou ?, Paris, Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2016.
• Que faire ?, Paris, Galilée, 2016.
• Signaux sensibles, entretien à propos des arts, with Jérôme Lèbre, Paris, Bayard, 2017.
• La Tradition allemande dans la philosophie, with Alain Badiou, Paris, Éditions Lignes, 2017.
• Sexistence, Paris, Galilée, 2017.
• Exclu le Juif en nous, Paris, Galilée, 2018.

English translations

• The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
• The Inoperative Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
• The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
• The Birth to Presence. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
• The Experience of Freedom. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
• The Muses. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• The Gravity of Thought. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1997.
• Retreating the Political. With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; edited by Simon Sparks. London: Routledge, 1997.
• The Sense of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
• Being Singular Plural. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
• The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's Bons Mots. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
• Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• A Finite Thinking. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003
• The Ground of the Image. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.
• Multiple Arts (The Muses II). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
• The Creation of the World or Globalization. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
• Listening. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
• The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
• Philosophical Chronicles (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy). New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
• Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
• Corpus. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
• On the Commerce of Thinking: On Books and Bookstores. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.
• The Fall of Sleep. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.
• The Truth of Democracy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
• God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.
• In Place of Utopia. In Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought. New York & London: Continuum, 2012.
• Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
• The Pleasure in Drawing. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
• Being Nude. The Skin of Images. With Federico Ferrari; New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
• The Disavowed Community. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
• Foreword of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• Dies Irae. London: University of Westminster Press, 2019.

See also

• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction

References

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Further reading

• Alexandrova, Alena, ed. Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
• Armstrong, Phillip. Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
• Derrida, Jacques. On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
• "Nancy's Wager", Dwivedi, Divya, Philosophy World Democracy.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel. Chances de la pensée – À partir de Jean-Luc Nancy, París: Galilée, “La Philosophie en effet”, 2011.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel. “The Poetry of the World," in Diacritics, Vol 43 (4), pp. 52-64, 2016.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel. “La poésie du monde”, in Po&sie, n. 149-159, 3ème et 4ème trim. 2014, pp. 233-238.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel. “Jean-Luc Nancy’s Concept of Body”, Epoché - A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2009), 189-211.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel.“Le corps insacrifiable”, Europe, París, 2009, 277-283.
• Garrido, Juan Manuel. "La mutation infinie du sens", Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg, 42, 2017.
• Hörl, Erich. 'The Artificial Intelligence of Sense. The History of Sense and Technology After Jean-Luc Nancy (by way of Simondon).' In: Parrhesia, no. 17, 2013, pp. 11–24.
• Hutchens, B. C. Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
• Hutchens, B. C., ed. Jean-Luc Nancy: Justice, Legality, and World. New York: Continuum, 2012.
• James, Ian. The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
• Kamuf, Peggy, ed. On the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy: A Special Issue of Paragraph. Nov. 1992.
• Martin, Jean-Clet, ed. Sens en tous sens, (with Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida...), Paris, Galilée, 2004.
• Mohan, Shaj, “The Marvelous Births of Jean-Luc Nancy”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis
• Morin, Marie-Eve. Jean-Luc Nancy. Cambridge: Polity, 2012.
• Sparks, Simon, ed. On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Tuppini, Tommaso. Jean-Luc Nancy. Le forme della comunicazione. Roma: Carocci 2012.
• At the Heart: of Jean-Luc Nancy. A Special Issue of The New Centennial Review, Vol. 2, no.3, Fall 2002.

External links

• Jean-Luc Nancy article at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• "La fin de la philosophie et la tâche de la pensée" by Jean-Luc Nancy
• On Communism, by Nancy.
• Demosophia by Jean-Luc Nancy
• Jean-Luc Nancy. Between Story and Truth. In: Little Mag. July / August 2001.
• Emmanuel Alloa. The real outside is at the heart of the inside. Interview. Atopia. 2007.
• Jean-Luc Nancy. The Technique of the Present. Lecture. Nouveau Musée. January 1997.
• David Patrick. Template:Webarchive.
• Adam Kotsko. Already, Not Yet. Review of La Déclosion: Déconstruction du christianisme. Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 87–95, Fall 2005.
• Jean-Luc Nancy. Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy in two parts, by Florian Forestier Template:In lang
•  — Second part of the interview Template:In lang

See also

• Deconstruction
• Deconstruction-and-religion
• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction
• Self-deconstructed Christianity