Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Otherness: Philosophy and Powers of Existence

222 Pages·2013·15.306 MB·English

by  Daniele Rugo

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Acknowledgements xi
Introduction
Exposures 11
Heidegger: A review 11
Situating the body 17
Banality of bodies 21
Impenetrable outline 23
Spinoza: The liberator of the body 24
Touching the word 31
Body's origin 37
'Bear in mind, Dear Friend ...' 44
Body and the wound 47
An interesting position 49
Living from ... 53
In between bodies 55
2 Between Us 61
Turn of phrase 61
What happens between us 65
The world of bodies 68
The world is without a why: Deconstruction of the world 73
Cinema as philosophical model 89
Contrapuntal close-ups 97
Pan-orama and dis··tance 101
3 Separations 107
Dialogues and disputations 107
We are the world 109
A matter of hyphens 112
Desire-in -the-world 114
Two versions of originary otherness 126
Ambiguity of the Third 147
x Contents
111e sky over justice: Return of neutrality 157
111e immeasurable face of the witll 163
4 Powers of Existence 167
Being with the undecidable 167
The in-common of separation 177
POIvers of existence 183
Coda 188
Beginning to think 192
Notes 195
Bibliography 201
Index 209