Experience, Excription, Existence: Nancy with Derrida, between Kant and Bataille
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Published:2024-02
Issue:1
Volume:17
Page:19-39
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ISSN:1754-8500
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Container-title:Derrida Today
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Derrida Today
Abstract
This essay locates Jean-Luc Nancy's analyses, developed in relation to three invented terms, expeausition, excription, sexistence, in a threefold context: between Immanuel Kant on experience and Heidegger on existence; with Derrida on rethinking life and death ( lavielamort); and as a response to the alteration in phenomenology consequent on a transposition of key themes out of the German speaking context of the analyses of Husserl and Heidegger into the French language context of the French reception. An intensification ( survie) of life forces may arrive in a ‘living on’ ( survivre) where thought processes only partially brought to expression in the lifetimes of their originators acquire precision and definition in moments of extremity, danger and horror, adding a fourth dimension to the initial three.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy