Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

Irving Goh is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2014), which won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies. His second monograph, L’existence prépositionnelle, was published by Galilée in 2019. With Jean-Luc Nancy, he published The Deconstruction of Sex (Duke University Press, 2021). He is also editor of French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (Routledge, 2019), coeditor with Verena Andermatt Conley of Nancy Now (Polity, 2014), and coeditor with Timothy Murray of the diacritics special issue on “The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy” (2 volumes, 2014-15).

Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy Passes | 1

Irving Goh

1 The Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time

(Reading Descartes with Jean-Luc Nancy) | 21

Georges Van Den Abbeele

2 Nancy with Hegel: The Restless Pleasures of Calculus and the Infinite Opening in Finitude | 52

John H. Smith

3 The World, Absolutely: On Jean-Luc Nancy (and Karl Marx) | 75

Rodolphe Gasché

4 Worldless: Heidegger, Simone Weil, and Anti-Judaism via Nancy | 91

Eleanor Kaufman

5 Flesh and Écart in Merleau-Ponty and Nancy | 111

Marie-Eve Morin

6 Sexistence: Nancy and Lacan | 135

Emily Apter

7 Sublime Seizures in Lyotard and Nancy: The Political Blooming of Art and Technology | 149

Timothy Murray

8 D’avec: Mutations and Mutisms in Jean-Luc Nancy | 166

Werner Hamacher

9 Infinitely Passing (or, Pascal Passes) | 205

Jean-Luc Nancy

List of Contributors | 211

Index | 215