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Jean-Luc Nancy
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Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher and university teacher. Born in Bordeaux, France, on 26 July 1940, he was educated at the University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès and Marc Bloch University. He worked as a university teacher at Marc Bloch University and the European Graduate School. His professional activity spanned from 1973 to 2013, during which he wrote 145 works.
Nancy was associated with the phenomenology movement and worked in the fields of philosophy and history of philosophy. He was influenced by Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. His notable works include *Journal des Phéniciennes*, *Proprement dit*, *Ach Deutschland*, *Dans la disruption*, and *La fin des fins*. He died in Strasbourg on 23 August 2021.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 July 1940
- Died
- 23 August 2021
- Works
- 145
Top works
- Journal des Phéniciennes
- Proprement dit
- Ach Deutschland
- Dans la disruption
- La fin des fins
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Film & TV
Bordeaux, France
Jean-Luc Nancy (/nɑːnˈsiː/ nahn-SEE; French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 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…
Known for
- Man, That Old Sick Animal — self2020
- Smugglers' Songs — L'imprimeur Jean-Luc Cynan2012
- Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies2009
- Una belleza nueva — Self2006
- The Ister — Himself2004
- Vers Nancy2002
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello — (segment "Vers Nancy")2002
- Dialogues clandestins 20012001
- Derrida's Elsewhere — Himself1999
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-07-26 ) 26 July 1940, Caudéran , Gironde , France
- Died
- 23 August 2021 (2021-08-23) (aged 81), Strasbourg , France
- Alma mater
- University of Paris , Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Ricœur
- Other advisor
- Jacques Derrida
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy , Deconstruction
- Institutions
- University of Strasbourg , European Graduate School
- Main interests
- Literary criticism , Ontology , Political philosophy , Philosophy of technology
- Notable ideas
- The literary Absolute , existence as ontological responsibility, ontodicy, sense of the world, inoperative community, non-subjective freedom , anastasis , dis-enclosure, being singular plural, being-with, sexistence
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean-Luc
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of death
- Strasbourg
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Marc Bloch University
- Employer
- Marc Bloch University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- history of philosophy
- Movement
- phenomenology
- Image
- Jean-Luc Nancy 20100328 Salon du livre de Paris 4.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- date of birth
- 1940-07-26
- name in native language
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Academia.edu profile URL
- unistra.academia.edu/jeanlucnancy
- date of death
- 2021-08-23
- influenced by
- Simone Weil
- birth name
- Jean-Luc Roland Louis André Nancy
- start of work period
- 1973-01-01
- end of work period
- 2013-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean-Luc Nancy (/nɑːnˈsiː/ nahn-SEE; French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.
In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with helping to reopen the question of the ground of community and politics with his 1985 work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community), following Blanchot's The Unavowable Community (1983) and Agamben responded to both with The Coming Community (1990). One of the very few monographs that Jacques Derrida ever wrote on a contemporary philosopher is On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy.
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