Identity: Fragments, Frankness - Brossura

Nancy, Jean-Luc

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ISBN 10: 0823256111 ISBN 13: 9780823256112

Casa editrice: Fordham Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always
open to alterity and its transformations.

Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment against immigration, Nancy problematizes anew the notions of identity, nation, and national identity. He seeks to show that there is never a given identity but always an open
process of identification that retains an exposure to difference. Thus identity can never operate as a self-identical subject, such as "the French."

Ultimately, for Nancy, one does not have an identity but has to become one. One can never return to a self-same identity but can only seek to locate oneself within difference and singularity. Nancy shows the impasse of a certain conception of identity that he calls the "identity of the
identifiable," which refers to some permanent, given, substantial identity. In opposition to such identity, Nancy offers the identity of whatever or whoever invents itself in an open process of exposure to others and internal difference. Hence, an identity is never given but "makes itself by seeking
and inventing itself." One does not have an identity, but is an identity. Identity is an act, not a state.

This important book will provide much-needed philosophical clarification of a complex and strategic notion at the center of many current events and discussions.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Among the most recent of his many books to be published in English are Corpus; Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity; Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body; The Truth of Democracy; and
Adoration: The Destruction of Christianity II (all Fordham).

François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Heidegger and the Subject and The Origins of Responsibility and has co-translated (with David Pettigrew) Jean-Luc Nancy's The Creation of the World.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Fordham Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0823256111
• ISBN 13: 9780823256112
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 46
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile