Nancy, Jean-Luc (1940–)

(One of the best and most difficult analyses of Lacan’s thought, that shows its relation to Heidegger’s conception of truth as the interplay of concealment and unconcealment.)

(An analysis of the relation between certain ‘speculative’ terms in Hegel’s work – especially Aufhebung – and his explorations of certain excessive explosions of ‘wit’ and ‘frivolity’.)

(A reading of Kant oriented towards the ‘syncopation’, or the punctuating rhythm, which makes it possible for consciousness to identify itself as itself but which cannot be understood either as a form or a content of consciousness.)

(A wide-ranging presentation of early German romanticism’s conception of the relation between literature and philosophy. The French edition includes extensive translations of German texts.)

(A reading of Descartes oriented towards those ‘autobiographical’ moments in Cartesian texts where the indexical ‘ego’ marks a dislocation and interruption of ‘the ego’, that is, the thinking subject.)

(An incisive reading of Plato’s Ion that develops out of a reading of Heidegger’s brief remarks on the use of the word hermeneus in this dialogue.)

(A collection of essays, the first of which is an extensive examination of Kant’s ‘fact of reason’. Other essays analyse moments in the repercussion of Kant’s moral theory in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida.)

(A sustained critique of contemporary philosophical trends that call for a ‘return to the subject’. These calls are shown to arise from a desire to evade an exposure to ‘sense’ by securing an order of ‘signification’.)

(An analysis of what happens to the thought and practice of community once it is no longer understood in terms of a common identity or common substance. A community thus understood does not belong to the order of representation and it cannot be a community for which anyone works. It consists of those who are co-exposed to their own lack of identity and substantiality.)

(An innovative reading of Kant’s Analytic of the Sublime in the Critique of Judgment.)

(One of the landmarks of contemporary continental philosophy. Drawing on Heidegger’s shift from a discourse of freedom in his early work to a thought of an open – or free – spatiality in his later thought, the book explores in an interconnected series of essays the modern project of grounding philosophical thought and political practice on the idea of freedom.)

(A collection of essays on philosophy and literature, many of which are translated in The Birth to Presence, 1993.)

(A collection of essays, most of which are concerned with contemporary artists and artistic practices.)

(A succinct exposition of the thought and practice of community once it is freed from the categories of identity, substantiality and work.)

(An analysis of what happens to ‘communism’ now that the project of maintaining a ‘real, existing socialism’ has collapsed. The book is an exploration of the political dimensions of ‘being-in-common’.)

(An analysis of Nazi ideology from the perspective of modern German philosophy and intellectual history.)

(An extensive analysis of embodiment, corporeality, incarnation, and the dislocated body as the site of a ‘sense’ that forever evades all philosophical and scientific attempts to make it into a place of ‘signification’.)

(A series of short chapters in which the thought of a single ‘fact’ is pursued in a variety of ways: there is no sense of the world as long as ‘sense’ is understood as ‘meaning’, but the world itself is ‘sense’ if this word is understood as the limit of ‘signification’.)

(A wide range of essays, including an exemplary analysis of ‘decision’ in Heidegger’s Being and Time, the place of the monarch in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, and an explication of what Nancy calls ‘exscription’: the inscription of an ineluctable exteriority in literary texts.)

(A collection of essays on art and art theory that begins with the question: ‘Where are there several arts and not simply one?’)

(A response to Nancy’s earliest essays on the ’inoperative community’ by one of France’s most influential writers and critics.)

(A volume of essays devoted to analysing the work of Nancy, with difficult but rewarding contributions from Derrida, Hamacher, Garciá-Düttmann, and others; the only extensive bibliography of Nancy’s writings.)

(Several essays discuss Nancy’s ’Of Being in Common’ andconsider the consequences of his thought for contemporary political and social philosophy.)

(A collection of essays that analyses Nancy’s work, assesses and develops certain lines of his thought.)