Reassesses the term ‘atheism’ in the context of contemporary French philosophy. Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, as well as Quentin Meillassoux and Slavoj Zizek…

Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that…

This book uses a deconstructive method to bring together the history of Western Monotheism (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and reflections on contemporary atheism. It develops Nancy’s concepts of sense, world, and…

Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy’s sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities-mind and…

How have we thought ‘the body’? How can we think it anew? This title incorporates the body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws…

This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents…

An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a New Poetics of Community that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths…

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. Thinking with and against…