Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy (26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Kant, Ego sum (1979) on Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Heidegger. In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with reopening the question of the ground of community and politics with his work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community). Blanchot and Agamben responded to this work with The Unavowable Community (1983) and The Coming Community (1983) respectively. One of the very few monographs that Jacques Derrida ever wrote on a contemporary philosopher is On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

• with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Le Titre de la lettre. Une lecture de Lacan, Paris: Galilée, 1973, 192 pp. [1]
  • The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, trans. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew, SUNY Press, 1992, 151 pp, ARG. (English) [2]

• La Remarque spéculative. Un bon mot de Hegel, Paris: Galilée, 1973, 184 pp, PDF, IA, ARG. [3]

• Le Discours de la syncope: I. Logodaedalus, Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1976, Scribd.
  • The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus, trans. Saul Anton, Stanford University Press, 2008, ARG. (English) [4]

• Ego sum. La Philosophie en effet, Paris: Flammarion, 1979, PDF, ARG.
  • Ego sum, Milan: Bompiani, 2008. (Italian)
  • Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula, trans. and intro Marie-Eve Morin, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, ARG. (English)

• Le Partage des voix, Paris: Galilée, 1982, 96 pp, ARG. [5]

• L’Oubli de la philosophie, Paris: Galilée, 1986, 112 pp. [6]
  • The Gravity of Thought, trans. Francois Raffoul and Gregory Recco, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1999, ARG (English)

• La communauté désoeuvrée, Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1986; 1990; 1999; 2004.
  • The Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland and Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota Press, 1991, Log. (English)
  • La comunidad inoperante, trans. Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer, Santiago de Chile: Escuela de filosofía Arcis, 2000, Log. (Spanish)
  • La comunidad enfrentada, trans. Juan Manuel Garrido. Buenos Aires: Ediciones La cebra, 2002. (Spanish)
  • Dva ogleda. Razdjelovljena zajednica. O singularnom pluralnom bitku, trans. Tomislav Medak, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Arkzin, 2003, 148 pp, Log. (Croatian)
  • Comunitatea absentă, trans. Emilian Cioc, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2005, Log. (Romanian)

• L’Expérience de la liberté, Paris: Galilée, 1988, 224 pp. [7]
  • The Experience of Freedom, trans. Bridget McDonald, Stanford University Press, 1993, ARG. (English)

• Une Pensée finie, Paris: Galilée, 1990, 376 pp. [8]
  • Un pensamiento finito, Barcelona: Anthropos, 2002. (Spanish)
  • A Finite Thinking, ed. Simon Sparks, Stanford University Press, 2003, 348 pp, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Corpus, Paris: Métailié, 1992; 2000, PDF, ARG, ARG.
  • Corpus, Lisboa: Vega, 2000, PDF. (Portuguese)
  • Corpus, trans. Richard A. Rand, Fordham University Press, 2008, ARG, ARG. (English)
  • Corpus, Madrid: Arena Libros, 2003. (Spanish)
  • Corpus, trans. Tamas Seregi, Budapest: Kijárat Kiadó, 2013. (Hungarian)

• Le Sens du monde, Paris: Galilée, 1993; new ed., 2001, 264 pp, ARG. [9]
  • The Sense of the World, trans. & foreword Jeffrey S. Librett, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, ARG. (English)

• Les Muses, Paris: Galilée, 1994, 168 pp; 2001. [10]
  • The Muses, trans. Peggy Kamuf, Stanford University Press, 1997, 136 pp. (English) [11] Commentary: Nikolopoulou (2003).

• Être singulier pluriel, Paris: Galilée, 1996, 224 pp, PDF; new ed., exp., 2013. [12]
  • Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O'Byrne, Stanford University Press, 2000, PDF, ARG. (English)
  • Essere singolare plurale, trans. Davide Tarizzo, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2001, PDF. (Italian)
  • Ser singular plural, Madrid: Arena Libros, 2006. (Spanish)

• Hegel. L'inquiétude du négatif, Paris: Hachette, 1997, ARG. Review.
  • L'inquietudine del negativo, Naples: Cronopio, 1998, PDF. (Italian)
  • Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative, trans. Jason Smith and Steven Miller, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, PDF, ARG. (English)
  • La inquietud de lo negativo, Madrid: Arena Libros, 2005. (Spanish)

• Le Regard du portrait, Paris: Galilée, 2000, 104 pp., ARG.

• L’Intrus, Paris: Galilée, 2000, 48 pp; new ed., exp., 2010. [13]
  • "L'Intrus", trans. Susan Hanson, CR: The New Centennial Review 2:3 (Fall 2002), pp 1-14, PDF. (English) [14]
  • El intruso, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2007. (Spanish)

• Abbas Kiarostomi: L'Évidence du film / The Evidence of Film, Brussels: Yves Gevaert, 2001, 181 pp, ARG, IA. Review: Kretzschmar (2002, EN).

• with Jacques Derrida and Simon Hantaï, La Connaissance des textes. Lecture d’un manuscrit illisible. Correspondances, Paris: Galilée, 2001, 160 pp. [15]

• La Communauté affrontée, Paris: Galilée, 2001, 64 pp. [16]

• L’« il y a » du rapport sexuel, Paris: Galilée, 2001, 64 pp. [17]
  • El "hay" de la relación sexual, Madrid: Síntesis, 2003. (Spanish)
  • Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality, trans. Anne E. O'Byrne, Fordham University Press, 2013, IA, ARG, ARG. (English)

• La Pensée dérobée, Paris: Galilée, 2001, 200 pp, Scribd, ARG. [18]

• Visitation, Paris: Galilée, 2001. [19]

• La Création du monde ou la mondialisation, Paris: Galilée, 2002, 180 pp, PDF. [20]
  • La creazione del mondo o la mondializzazione, trans. Davide Tarizzo and Marina Bruzzese, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2003, PDF. (Italian)
  • The Creation of the World or Globalization, trans. & intro. Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew, SUNY Press, 2007, ARG. (English)

• À l’écoute, Paris: Galilée, 2002, 96 pp, Log.
  • All'ascolto, trans. E. Lisciani Petrini, Cortina Raffaello, 2004, PDF. (Italian)
  • Listening, trans. Charlotte Mandell, Fordham University Press, 2007, 85 pp, Log. (English)
  • A la escucha, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2007. (Spanish)

• Au fond des images, Paris: Galilée, 2003. [21]
  • La representación prohibida, seguido de La Shoah, un soplo, trans, Margarita Martínez, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2006, 88 pp, ARG. Review (Spanish)
  • The Ground of the Image, trans. Jeff Fort, Fordham University Press, 2005, ARG. (English)
  • Am Grund der Bilder, trans. Emanuel Alloa, Zürich-Berlin: Diaphanes, 2006, ARG. (German)

• Noli me tangere, Paris: Bayard, 2003, ARG.
  • Noli me tangere. Ensayo sobre el levantamiento del cuerpo, trans. María Tabuyo and Agustín López, Buenos Aires: Minima Trotta, 2009. (Spanish)

• L'extension de l'âme, Metz: Le Portique, 2003.

• Fortino Sámano, Paris: Galilée, 2004. [22]

• Chroniques philosophiques, Paris: Galilée, 2004, ARG.
  • Philosophical Chronicles, trans. Franson Manjali, New York: Fordham University Press, 2008, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Iconographie de l’auteur, Paris: Galilée, 2005. [23]

• Allitérations, Paris: Galilée, 2005. [24]

• La Déclosion (Déconstruction du christianisme, 1), Paris: Galilée, 2005, 248 pp. [25] Review.
  • Dis-Enclosure. The Deconstruction of Christianity, trans. Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant and Michael B. Smith, Fordham University Press, 2008, 190 pp, ARG. (English)
  • La declosión (Deconstrucción del cristianismo, 1), trans. Guadalupe Lucero, Buenos Aires: La Cebra, 2008. (Spanish)

• Sur le commerce des pensées, Paris: Galilée, 2005, 80 pp. [26]
  • On the Commerce of Thinking Of Books and Bookstores, trans. David Wills, Fordham University Press, 2009, 84 pp, ARG. (English)

• La Naissance des seins, Paris: Galilée, 2006. [27]

• Multiple Arts: Muses II, ed. Simon Sparks, 2006, 288 pp, ARG. (English) [28]

• with Federico Ferrari, Nus sommes : la peau des images, Klincksieck, 2006, ARG.
  • Being Nude: The Skin of Images, trans. Anne O'Byrne and Carlie Anglemire, Fordham University Press, 2014, IA, ARG. (English)

• Tombe de sommeil, Paris: Galilée, 2007, ARG. [29]
  • The Fall of Sleep, trans. Charlotte Mandell, Fordham University Press, 2009, ARG. (English)

• À plus d’un titre. Jacques Derrida, Paris: Galilée, 2007, 112 pp. [30]

• Juste impossible, Paris: Bayard, 2007.

• Vérité de la démocratie, Paris: Galilée, 2008, 72 pp. [31]
  • The Truth of Democracy, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, 2010, ARG. (English)

• Le Plaisir au dessin, Paris: Galilée, 2009. [32]
  • The Pleasure in Drawing, trans. Philip Armstrong, New York: Fordham University Press, 2013, PDF, ARG. (English)

• with Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross and Slavoj Žižek, Démocratie, dans quel état ?, Paris: La Fabrique, 2009, Log.
  • Democracy in What State?, trans. William McCuaig, Columbia University Press, 2011, 130 pp, Log. (English)

• Dieu, la justice, l'amour, la beauté: Quatre petites confére, Bayard, 2009.
  • God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues, trans. Sarah Clift, Fordham University Press, 2011, ARG. (English)

• Identité, Paris: Galilée, 2010. [33]
  • Identity. Fragments, Frankness, trans. François Raffoul, Fordham University Press, 2014, PDF. [34] (English)

• L'Adoration, Paris: Galilée, 2010. [35]
  • Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II, trans. John McKeane, Fordham University Press, 2013, ARG. (English)

• Trafic/déclic & Benoît Goetz: Les villes de Nancy, Strasbourg: Le Portique: La Phocide, 2010, 64 pp, ARG. [36]

• Maurice Blanchot, passion politique, Paris: Galilée, 2011. [37]

• Politique et au-delà, Paris: Galilée, 2011. [38]

• with Aurélien Barrau, Dans quels mondes vivons-nous?, Paris: Galilée, 2011. [39]
  • What's These Worlds Coming To?, trans. Travis Holloway and Flor Méchain, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014, IA. [40]

• L'Equivalence des catastrophes (Après Fukushima), Paris: Galilée, 2012, ARG, IA. [41]
  • After Fukushima. The Equivalence of Catastrophes, trans. Charlotte Mandell, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014, 2015, ARG. (English)
  • L'equivalenza delle catastrofi, trans. Giovanbattista Tusa, Milan: Mimesis, 2016.

• Ivresse, Paris: Payot et Rivages, 2013. [42]

• Jamais le mot créateur, Paris: Galilée, 2013. [43]

• Vous désirez ?, Paris: Bayard, 2013, IA. [44]

• L'Autre Portrait, Paris: Galilée, 2014, 128 pp, ARG, IA. [45]

• La Communauté désavouée, Paris: Galilée, 2014, IA. [46]

• Demande. Littérature et philosophie, Paris: Galilée, 2014, ARG. [47]

• Le Philosophe boiteux, Le Havre: Franciscopolis/Presses du réel, 2014.

• Banalité de Heidegger, Paris: Galilée, 2015, ARG.

• C'est quoi penser par soi-même? Entretiens avec Émile, Paris: Aube, 2015, ARG.

• with Mathilde Girard, Proprement dit: Entretien sur le mythe, Lignes, 2015, PDF.

• Que faire?, Paris: Galilée, 2016, PDF, IA, ARG.

Bibliography

• Jean-Luc Nancy – Bibliographie complète, 2014.
• Introducción y bibliografía. (Spanish)

Interviews

• Elena Cué, "Interview With Jean-Luc Nancy: 'There Is No West Anymore'", Huffington Post, 14 Jul 2016, HTML. (English)

Literature

• Jacques Derrida, Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris: Galilée, 2000.
  • On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Christine Irizarry, Stanford University Press, 2005. (English)
• B.C. Hutchens, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. [48] (English)
• Philip Armstrong, Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 307 pp, Log. (English)
• Christopher Watkin, Phenomenology or Deconstruction?: The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 304 pp. (English)
• Christopher Watkin, Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux, Edinburgh University Press, 2011. (English)
• Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris: Nouvelles Editions Lignes, 2013, PDF, ARG.
• Sanja Dejanovic (ed.), Nancy and the Political, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. (English)

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