By Jean-Luc Nancy,Richard Rand
ISBN-10: 0823229610
ISBN-13: 9780823229611
ISBN-10: 0823229629
ISBN-13: 9780823229628
Corpus is a piece of literary strength right now phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its a number of orientations and methods. In thirty-six short sections, Nancy bargains us immediately an encyclopedia and a polemical program—reviewing classical takes at the “corpus” from Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, whereas demonstrating that the mutations (technological, organic, and political) of our personal tradition have given upward push to the necessity for a brand new realizing of the physique. He not just tells the tale of this cultural switch but in addition explores the promise and tasks that one of these new knowing entails.
The long-awaited English translation is a daring, bravura rendering. To the name essay are extra 5 heavily comparable fresh pieces—including a statement by way of Antonia Birnbaum—dedicated largely to the legacy of the “mind-body challenge” formulated by way of Descartes and the problem it poses to rethinking the traditional difficulties of the corpus. The final and such a lot poignant of those essays is “The Intruder,” Nancy’s philosophical meditation on his middle transplant. The booklet additionally serves because the starting circulate in Nancy’s better undertaking referred to as “The deconstruction of Christianity.”
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