... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...

... but literature generally, all the other arts, the creative process, nature, and even the state.12 As Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy suggest, Jena Romanticism was much less interested in the future of verse than in that of poiesy, according to an etymological appeal that the romantics did...

... it weaves Walter Benjamin, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Leela Gandhi into an account of postfascist reading practices or delves into court records and pamphlet disputes. The conclusion, presented as a series of largely disconnected theses, makes a somewhat baffling appeal to collaboration as a means of saving...

... by Derrida, Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy and others, all dealing with important and wide-ranging issues. Saussy constructs an elabo- rate theoretical framework to connect the central chapters on the Chinese classic, the Book ofodes, with the beginning and ending chapters on the fig- ure of China...

... by Derrida, Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy and others, all dealing with important and wide-ranging issues. Saussy constructs an elabo- rate theoretical framework to connect the central chapters on the Chinese classic, the Book ofodes, with the beginning and ending chapters on the fig- ure of China...

... art. As Jean-Luc Nancy has remarked: What [tradition] hands down to us under the name of the “sub lime” is not an aesthetic (and especially not any of the particu- lar aesthetics of the grandiose, the monumental, or the ecstatic with which the sublime is often...

... that was not part of a Romanticism more concerned with the return and retreat of origins and that a residual Romanticism in literary studies and theory (from Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin to Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida) now seeks to ques- tion from the far side of this discursive shift. More...

... Magistra Vitae: Über die Auflösung des Topos im Horizont neuzeitlich bewegter Geschichte. ” In Vergangene Zukunft: Zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten , 38 - 66 . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Nancy Jean-Luc . 1978 . L’absolu littéraire: Théorie de la...

... standard of disinterested contemplation. Gilles Deleuze, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, and particularly Ian Hunter have displaced the stereotypes of alienated contemplation and subjective brooding by locating in Kant’s conception of the aesthetic an active...

... of being frustrated by the punctum, of which there is nothing to relate. Conversely, audi- tion can be made to reveal its active processes. To this end, Jean-Luc Nancy separates “hearing” from “listening.” The French entendre, which denotes both hearing and understanding, designates for Nancy...

... equality or human rights. However, there are other kinds of scenes (as well as other kinds of slogans, e.g., “I can’t breathe”) that make room for the reciprocally constituting narrations of nonidentical subjects—what Jean-Luc Nancy ( 1991 : 4) calls “the singular existent that the subject announces...

... but may never meet face-to-face.45 This idea of community can be compared to what Jean-Luc Nancy has called “lit- erary communism”: a union of articulated singularities for which any sense of totality arises from the “play of the articulations,” not from the union’s absorption into the “higher...

... critiques of economic imperialism, as they do in the work of Jean-­Luc Nancy;9 when books on cosmopolitanism as a political philos- ophy or a literary style stud the academic best-­seller lists;10 when litera- ture can be rethought as an expression of a “planetary time” explicitly 8...

... of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parlament of England . London . Nancy Jean-Luc . 1993 . The Experience of Freedom , translated by McDonald Bridget . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Nedham Marchamont . 1969 . The Case of the Commonwealth of England, Stated , edited...

...; or, How to Save the Sublime from Narcissistic Sublimation,”again argues against competing ver- sions of the aesthetic, now specified in the idea of the sublime. Altieri bril- liantly reads Paul Crowther’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s accounts as succumbing subtly to the recuperative self-satisfaction...

... Berlin; Italian Roberto Calasso; Czech Kundera; Hungarian Georg Lukács; French Antoine Berman, Pascale Casanova, Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe, and Jean-­Luc Nancy; Turkish Yıldız Ecevit; German Walter Benjamin) have cited the prodigious work of the Frühromantiker in conceptualizing world-­literary...

.... Stone, Border Wars of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843), 251 – 52. 18  Maurice Blanchot, The Unavowable Community, trans. Pierre Joris (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1988). 182 MLQ June 2006 enlist Jean-Luc Nancy...

... Individualism: Autonomj, Individuality, and the Self in Westen Thought (Stan- ford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986); Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor and Jean-Luc Nancy, eds., Who Corns after the Subject? (New York: Routledge, 1991);Fran- cis Jaques, Diflmmce and Subjectivity: Dialogue and Personal...

... for the possibility of each “I.” —Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural Paper hough Margaret Cavendish has been and continues to be a central Tfigure in the discussion of Anglo-American feminism in time,1 I This essay has benefited from discussions at the Fourth Biennial Conference...

... , and Nancy Jean-Luc . 1988 . The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism , translated by Barnard Philip and Lester Cheryl . Albany : State University of New York Press . Leavis F. R. 1973 . The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad...