1st Edition
The Pulse of Sense Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy
Introduction: The Conduct of Existence
Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere
Part 1: The Fragility of Sense
1. The World’s Fragile Skin
Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere
2. Insistence, or the Force of Jean-Luc Nancy
Irving Goh
3. Nancy on Trial: Thinking Philosophy and the Jurisdictional
Peter Gratton
4. The Fragility of Thinking
Leslie Hill
Part 2: The Poetics of Experience
5. Pir-ating the Given: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Critique of Empiricism
Benjamin Hutchens
6. Abraham’s Ordeal: Jean-Luc Nancy and Søren Kierkegaard on the Poetics of Faith
Nikolaas Deketelaere
7. Interpreters of the Divine: Nancy’s Poet, Jeremiah the Prophet, and Saint Paul’s Glossolalist
Gert-Jan van der Heiden
8. Art’s Passing for Hegel, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy
John McKeane
Part 3: The Corporeality of Existence
9. Jean-Luc Nancy, a Romantic Philosopher? On Romance, Love, and Literature
Aukje van Rooden
10. Spread Body and Exposed Body: Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy
Emmanuel Falque, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere
11. An Ontology for Our Times
Marie-Eve Morin
12. Affectivity, Sense, and Affects: Emotions as an Articulation of Biological Life
Ian James
Part 4: The Emancipation of Christianity
13. Metamorphosis or Mutation? Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Joeri Schrijvers
14. Desecularisation: Thinking Secularisation Beyond Metaphysics
Erik Meganck
15. Raising Death: Resurrection between Christianity and Modernity – A Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy’s Noli me tangere
Laurens ten Kate
16. The Eternal Return of Religion: Jean-Luc Nancy on Faith in the Singular-Plural
Marie Chabbert
17. Nancy is a Thinker of Radical Emancipation
Christopher Watkin
Part 5: Coda
18. An Accordion Tune
Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. by Marie Chabbert and Nikolaas Deketelaere
Biography
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.
