The Nancy Dictionary (Philosophical Dictionaries) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748646450 ISBN 13: 9780748646456

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Peter Gratton is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia Southern 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).

From the Back Cover

Add 2nd endorsementAuthor approved‘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 UniversityThe first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc NancyThe Nancy Dictionary presents a crucial introduction to this key figure in the contemporary intellectual landscape. It considers the full scope of his writing and provides insights into his philosophical and theoretical background in order to understand his key areas of focus on community, ontology, religion and aesthetics.Not merely a dictionary of terms, it also offers a guide to the key controversies in Nancy’s work by some of the most important scholars writing on Nancy today. In this way, The Nancy Dictionary provides both those who are new and those who are familiar with his work a place of entry into the lively debates over the fate of his work and of philosophy after deconstruction more generally.Peter Gratton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Marie-Eve Morin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.Cover image: © itmpa.co.ukCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748646450
• ISBN 13: 9780748646456
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Gratton Peter, Morin Marie-Eve