Books by Jean-Luc Nancy

Presents a plea that we rethink democracy not as one political regime or form among others but as that which opens up the very experience of being in common.

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

Provides an account of the author's ideas about God.

The most systematic, radical, and lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy, this book combats the renunciation of freedom attested in modern history by articulating the experience of freedom at work in thought itself.

This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his own.

Is there a "world" anymore, let alone any "sense" of it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our own time, and the lack of a world at the centre of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a critique of discourses that talk and write their way around these absences in our lives.

This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.