Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. Thinking might be a solitary activity or experience but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on and/or breaking away from existing thoughts or those that have come before, thinking is very much “singular plural” as existence is according to Nancy. Such a dimension is clearly found in Nancy’s philosophical writings. This volume thus explicates “the sharing of voices”—to borrow yet another of Nancy’s phrases—between Nancy and other thinkers, especially those who had come before him, including those with whom Nancy had a fraught intellectual relation and those with whom the intellectual relation is not so immediately obvious to contemporary readers. Contributions by some of today’s leading Nancy scholars in this volume will shed light on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from those of Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard. It also includes Nancy’s “Infinitely Passing,” written specifically for this volume and before his passing in 2021.