The Pulse of Sense

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy's thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity.

Autorentext

Marie Chabbert is Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's St John's College. Her research interrogates how contemporary French thinkers inaugurate new perspectives for thinking faith in the postsecular age. Her first monograph, Faithful Deicides: Modern French Thought and the Eternal Return of Religion, is forthcoming.

Nikolaas Deketelaere is a researcher at the Catholic University of Paris, France, and the Australian Catholic University. His research considers questions of experience and embodiment in contemporary phenomenology and philosophy of religion. He has published articles in Literature and Theology, Open Theology, and Angelaki.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Conduct of Existence Part 1: The Fragility of Sense 1. The World's Fragile Skin 2. Insistence, or the Force of Jean-Luc Nancy 3. Nancy on Trial: Thinking Philosophy and the Jurisdictional 4. The Fragility of Thinking Part 2: The Poetics of Experience 5. Pir-ating the Given: Jean-Luc Nancy's Critique of Empiricism 6. Abraham's Ordeal: Jean-Luc Nancy and Søren Kierkegaard on the Poetics of Faith 7. Interpreters of the Divine: Nancy's Poet, Jeremiah the Prophet, and Saint Paul's Glossolalist 8. Art's Passing for Hegel, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy Part 3: The Corporeality of Existence 9. Jean-Luc Nancy, a Romantic Philosopher? On Romance, Love, and Literature 10. Spread Body and Exposed Body: Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy 11. An Ontology for Our Times 12. Affectivity, Sense, and Affects: Emotions as an Articulation of Biological Life Part 4: The Emancipation of Christianity 13. Metamorphosis or Mutation? Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity 14. Desecularisation: Thinking Secularisation Beyond Metaphysics 15. Raising Death: Resurrection between Christianity and Modernity A Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy's noli me tangere 16. The Eternal Return of Religion: Jean-Luc Nancy on Faith in the Singular-Plural 17. Nancy is a Thinker of Radical Emancipation Part 5: Coda 18. An Accordion Tune