
The Nancy Dictionary
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 16. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-7486-4645-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy - a key figure in the contemporary intellectual landscape. This dictionary considers the full scope of his writing and provides insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to his focus on community and aesthetics. Drawing on an internationally recognised expertise of a multidisciplinary team of contributors, 70 entries explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating him to his contemporaries. It will appeal to students and scholars alike.
Reviews / Votes
Jean-Luc Nancy is among the most provocative thinkers of art, politics and religion of our time, and this dictionary is everything you wanted to know about his work but didn't quite know how to ask. As a reference work in gives new insights into his key concepts; as a commentary it shows the trajectory of his ever-expanding opus. You will want to read it from cover to cover. * Anne O'Byrne, Stony Brook University * The Nancy Dictionary opens many pathways into Nancy's writings and their critical reception. Addressing the key concepts and thinkers associated with his work, the Dictionary offers an especially generous set of initiatives in which readers move in and between the numerous texts that compose the extraordinary reach of Nancy's thinking. * Philip Armstrong, Ohio State University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4645-6 (9780748646456)
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Persons
Peter Gratton is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has published numerous articles in political, Continental, and intercultural philosophy and is the author of The State of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity (SUNY Press, 2012). Co-Editor of the influential interdisciplinary journal Society and Space (Environmental Planning D), executive board member of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, and books editor of Derrida Today, Peter has also edited two works: Traversing the Imaginary (Northwestern University Press, 2007), co-edited with John Mannousakis, and Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense (SUNY Press, 2012), co-edited with Marie-Eve Morin. Marie-Eve Morin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She is the author of many articles on Derrida, Heidegger, Nancy, Sartre, Latour, and Sloterdijk. She is also the author of Jean-Luc Nancy (Polity, 2012) and is the co-editor, with Peter Gratton, of The Nancy Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense (SUNY, 2012). She is editor of Continental Realism and its Discontents (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Editor
Professor of PhilosophyMemorial University of Newfoundland
Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Alberta
Content
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Entries A-Z; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors.