Bücher von Jean-Luc Nancy

Umfallen vor Müdigkeit, sich erschöpft aufs Bett fallen lassen oder gar todmüde in tiefen, ewig scheinenden Schlaf fallen, sodass die Bettstatt zugleich zur fernen Stätte eines zeitweiligen Nichtexistierens wird: »Vom Schlaf« ist eine essayistische Annäherung an den Zustand des Schlafens, der Selbstvergessenheit, der auch jenseits einer Ausdeutung von Träumen eine genaue Phänomenologie wagt. Jean-Luc Nancy entfaltet in diesem schmalen, aber nicht weniger intensiven Buch eine weitere Facette eines Denkens, das die cartesianische Körper-Geist-Dualität zu überwinden sucht. Ein durchaus poetischer Text, aus dem nicht nur der Philosoph, sondern auch der virtuos mit den phonetischen und metaphorischen Qualitäten der Sprache spielende Schriftsteller Jean-Luc Nancy spricht.

Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and reconsider our relations to ourselves and others through sex.

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.

Presents a plea that we rethink democracy not as one political regime or form among others but as that which opens up the very experience of being in common.

Provides an account of the author's ideas about God.

What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary?This is the first English translation published of Jean-Luc Nancy's acclaimed consideration of the law's most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is impossible to imagine the realisation of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person's ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimised? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and other forces than juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae. Such leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterise contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation central to contemporary political and legal debates.

Is there a "world" anymore, let alone any "sense" of it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our own time, and the lack of a world at the centre of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a critique of discourses that talk and write their way around these absences in our lives.