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Corpus III

Name: Corpus III
Brand: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781531501129
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781531501129

Cruor and Other Writings

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By Jean-Luc Nancy, Translated by Jeff Fort
Imprint: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 17, 2023
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 277

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A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe This landmark volume brings into English Jean-Luc Nancy's last completed work and concludes his remarkable philosophical reflections on the body, a project he began almost thirty years ago. Taking the body as an intersection of pulsing life and destructive cruelty on a global scale, Nancy's account becomes more vivid, more physical, than ever, even as it ventures into language that is as lyrical as it is profound. This vividness is manifest in blood: as it flows, in all its pulsing and forceful circulation, and as it spills, in the cruelty of existences confronted daily by countless destructions. This can be described as sanguis and cruor, the two Latin words for blood's intermingled but distinct aspects. This distinction allows Nancy to highlight an almost mystical sense of the body (yet one that remains soberly on this side of its manifest insistence), alongside the cruelty that pervades our world-a world whose very existence is threatened by its reduction to mere objects. The exceptional writings brought together in Corpus III comprise a masterful work of philosophy that marries rigorous erudition-on Freud, Nietzsche, and others-with rich poetic language and an actual poem. Nancy's thought opens the body onto its own unaccountable origins, its plural singularities, its enmeshed instantiations, and its excessive irreducibles, which are also the elusive excesses of language. Whereas in earlier texts Nancy has referred to this excess as poetry, here he performs it in the form of a poem, in the extraordinary hymn entitled Stoma. While the publication of a poem by Nancy is a notable event, equally noteworthy is a remarkable essay entitled "Scandalous Death," in which Nancy meditated on a subject that was to come to him too soon after. Above all, the book is crucial for bringing into English Cruor, the very last book Nancy completed before his death, an evocative meditation offered by a great thinker on the complex conditions of his own-and our-singular survival.

Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century's foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis. Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Imperative to Write (2014) and translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.

Part I : Cruor, with Longing for the Father Introduction 3 Cruor 7 1. Drive (Pulsion), 7 * 2. Rhythm, 8 * 3. Self (Soi), 9 * 4. You (Toi), 11 * 5. Instance, 13 * 6. Glorious Body, 15 * 7. Matrix, 17 * 8. It/Self (Erudite Interlude), 19 * 9. Extension, 21 * 10. Self/Same, 22 * 11. Excitation, 24 * 12. For, 25 * 13. Myth, 26 * 14. Sacrifice, 29 * 15. Torture, 31 * 16. Embrace, 33 * 17. Justice, 35 * 18. Sublime, 36 * 19. But Still Again, 37 * 20. Life Is Cruel, 38 * 21. Eros, Thanatos, Cosmos, 39 * 22. Drives without Objects, 41 Longing for the Father 45 Lesson 58 Part II : Stoma Hymne Stomique / Stoma: A Hymn 62 Afterword to Stoma, by Andrea Gyenge and John Paul Ricco 97 Part III : Scandalous Death 109 Notes 117

In this important last volume, Jean-Luc Nancy eloquently and powerfully returns to the nature of bodies and their singularities from a new and original perspective. Nancy's focus has shifted from the 'in between' of bodies in sex to spilled blood that colors the suffering of bodies and attests to cruelty through the violence--physical, psychological, political, economic, and technological--endemic to our times.---Dalia Judovitz, Emory University This wonderfully economical text gives us Nancy's elaborate arguments regarding the body, touch, plurality, globalization, and worldliness. At stake for Nancy is an urgent reformulation of what it means to live together.---Timothy Murray, author of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art

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