The ground of the image

176 Pages·2005·2.599 MB·English, French

by  Nancy, Jean-Luc

The Ground of the Image
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DrucillaCornell
ThomasR.Flynn
KevinHart
Jean-LucMarion
AdriaanPeperzak
RichardKearney
ThomasSheehan
HentdeVries
MeroldWestphal
EdithWyschogrod
MichaelZimmerman
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John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVESIN
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
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JEAN-LUC NANCY
The Ground of the Image
TRANSLATED BY JEFF FORT
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
NewYork 2005
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Copyright(cid:2)2005FordhamUniversityPress
Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina
retrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic,
mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsin
printedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher.
Chapters1–6ofTheGroundoftheImagewerepublishedasAufonddesimages,by
Jean-LucNancy,Copyright(cid:2)E´ditionsGalile´e,2003.Chapter8wasoriginally
publishedasVisitation(delapeinturechre´tienne),byJean-LucNancy,Copyright(cid:2)
E´ditionsGalile´e,2000.FortheoriginalpublicationofChapters7and9,see‘‘Note
ontheTexts’’below.Chapter7waspublishedas‘‘Nousautres,’’Copyright(cid:2)
E´ditionsGalile´e,2003,andChapter8waspublishedinFrenchas‘‘Souvereineen
peinture,’’Copyright(cid:2)E´ditionsGalile´e,2004.
ThisworkhasbeenpublishedwiththeassistanceoftheNationalCenterforthe
Book—FrenchMinistryofCulture.
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PerspectivesinContinentalPhilosophySeries,No.51
ISSN1089–3938
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Nancy,Jean-Luc.
[Aufonddesimages.English]
Thegroundoftheimage/Jean-LucNancy;translatedbyJeffFort.
p. cm.—(Perspectivesincontinentalphilosophy;no.51)
Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. ).
ISBN0-8232-2609-3(hardcover:alk.paper)—ISBN0-8232-2610-7
(pbk.:alk.paper)
1. Image(Philosophy) 2. Aesthetics. I. Title. II. Series.
B2430.N363A9413 2005
111(cid:2).85—dc22
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Thecloserhecametothisdeceptiveimageoftheisland’sshore,
themore thisimage receded;it continuedto fleefrom him,and
he knewnotwhattothinkofthisflight.
—Fe´nelon,AdventuresofTelemachus
Inthe depthsoftheforestyourimagefollowsme.
—Racine,Phaedra
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Contents
Illustrations x
NoteontheTexts xi
1 TheImage—theDistinct 1
2 ImageandViolence 15
3 ForbiddenRepresentation 27
4 UncannyLandscape 51
5 DistinctOscillation 63
6 MaskedImagination 80
7 NousAutres 100
8 Visitation:OfChristianPainting 108
9 TheSovereignWomaninPainting 126
Notes 139
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