Being Singular Plural (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Being Singular Plural (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to â€œBeing Singular Plural.â€ One of the strongest strands in Nancyâ€™s philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or subjectivity. The fundamental argument of the book is that being is always â€œbeing with,â€ that â€œIâ€ is not prior to â€œwe,â€ that existence is essentially co-existence. Nancy thinks of this â€œbeing-withâ€ not as a comfortable enclosure in a pre-existing group, but as a mutual abandonment and exposure to each other, one that would preserve the â€œIâ€ and its freedom in a mode of imagining community as neither a â€œsociety of spectacleâ€ nor via some form of authenticity. The five shorter essays impressively translate the philosophical insight of â€œBeing Singular Pluralâ€ into sophisticated discussions of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity politics, the Gulf War, and the tragic plight of Sarajevo. The essay â€œEulogy for the MÃªlÃ©e,â€ in particular, is a brilliant discussion of identity and hybridism that resonates with many contemporary social concerns. As Nancy moves through the exposition of his central concern, being-with, he engages a number of other important issues, including current notions of the â€œotherâ€ and â€œselfâ€ that are relevant to psychoanalytic, political, and multicultural concepts. He also offers astonishingly original reinterpretations of major philosophical positions, such as Nietzscheâ€™s doctrine of â€œeternal recurrence,â€ Descartesâ€™s â€œcogito,â€ and the nature of language and meaning.
Country USA
Brand Stanford University Press
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2000-11-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780804739757

Country	USA
Brand	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2000-11-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780804739757

Being Singular Plural (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

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