Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy (born 26 July 1940) is a French philosopher. His first introduction to philosophy was in his youth in the Catholic environment of Bergerac. In 1962 in Paris he graduated in philosophy. He taught for a short while in Colmar, and then in 1968 he took on a position as an assistant at the Institut de Philosophie in Strasbourg. In 1973 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Kant under supervision of Paul Ricoeur. He was then promoted maître de conférences at the Université des Sciences Humaines. In the 1970s and 1980s he was guest professor at universities all over the world, from the University of California to the Freie Universität in Berlin. His international reputation has grown, and he has been invited as a cultural delegate of the French ministry of external affairs to speak in Eastern Europe, Britain and the United States.

Bibliography

Selected works:

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• La Remarque spéculative (Un bon mot de Hegel), Paris, Galilée, 1973.
• La titre de la lettre, Paris, Galilée, 1973 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
• Le Discours de la syncope. I. Logodaedalus, Paris, Flammarion, 1975.
• L'absolu littéraire. Théorie de la littérature du romantisme allemand, Paris, Seuil, 1978 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe).
• Ego sum, Paris, Flammarion, 1979.
• Le partage des voix, Paris, Galilée, 1982.
• La communauté désoeuvrée, Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1983.
• L'Impératif catégorique, Paris, Flammarion, 1983.
• L'oubli de la philosophie, Paris, Galilée, 1986.
• Des lieux divins, Mauvezin, T.E.R, 1987.
• L'expérience de la liberté, Paris, Galilée, 1988.
• Une Pensée Finie, Paris, Galilée, 1990.
• Le poids d'une pensée, Québec, Le griffon d'argile, 1991.
• Le mythe nazi, La tour d'Aigues, L'Aube, 1991 (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
• La comparution (politique à venir), Paris, Bourgois, 1991 (with Jean-Chrisophe Bailly).
• Corpus, Paris, Métailié, 1992.
• The birth to presence, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1993.
• Les Muses, Paris, Galilée, 1994.
• Être singulier pluriel, Paris, Galilée, 1996.
• Hegel. L'inquiétude du négatif, Paris, Hachette, 1997.
• L'Intrus, Paris, Galilée, 2000.
• Le regard du portrait, Paris, Galilée, 2000.
• La pensée dérobée. Paris, Galilée, 2001.
• The evidence of film. Bruxelles, Yves Gevaert, 2001.
• La création du monde ou la mondialisation. Paris, Galilée, 2002.

Almost all of Nancy's major works have been translated into English.

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• The Inoperative Community (1991). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• The Birth to Presence (1993): Stanford University Press.
• The Experience of Freedom (1993). Stanford University Press.
• The Gravity of Thought (1997). New Jersey: Humanities Press.
• Retreating the Political (1997). With Lacoue-Labarthe (edited by Simon Sparks). London: Routledge.
• The Sense of the World (1998). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Being Singular Plural (2000). Stanford University Press