On Touching-Jean-luc Nancy 1st Edition by Jacques Derrida (PDF)

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Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chrétien are discussed, as are René Descartes, Diderot, Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. The scope of Derrida’s deliberations makes this book a virtual encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body).Derrida gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Deconstruction of Christianity,” devotes a section of the book to the sense of touch in the Gospels. Another section concentrates on “the flesh,” as treated by Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake. Derrida’s critique of intuitionism, notably in the phenomenological tradition, is one of the guiding threads of the book.On Touching includes a wealth of notes that provide an extremely useful bibliographical resource. Personal and detached all at once, this book, one of the first published in English translation after Jacques Derrida’s death, serves as a useful and poignant retrospective on the work of the philosopher. A tribute by Jean-Luc Nancy, written a day after Jacques Derrida’s death, is an added feature.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The translation of On Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy is a momentous event, for this is one of the greatest, most important works in Derrida’s immense oeuvre. It undertakes nothing less than a deconstruction of the phenomenological principle of principles, intuitionism, and the touchstone experience called touching. In a circulation through the history of philosophy since Aristotle up to the work of his contemporary and beloved friend Jean-Luc Nancy, the epochal thinker of touch, this book comes from and goes to the very heart of Derrida’s thought.”―Peggy Kamuf,University of Southern California From the Inside Flap Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chrétien are discussed, as are René Descartes, Diderot, Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. The scope of Derrida’s deliberations makes this book a virtual encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body). Derrida gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Deconstruction of Christianity,” devotes a section of the book to the sense of touch in the Gospels. Another section concentrates on “the flesh,” as treated by Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake. Derrida’s critique of intuitionism, notably in the phenomenological tradition, is one of the guiding threads of the book.On Touching includes a wealth of notes that provide an extremely useful bibliographical resource. Personal and detached all at once, this book, one of the first published in English translation after Jacques Derrida’s death, serves as a useful and poignant retrospective on the work of the philosopher. A tribute by Jean-Luc Nancy, written a day after Jacques Derrida’s death, is an added feature. From the Back Cover “The translation of On Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy is a momentous event, for this is one of the greatest, most important works in Derrida’s immense oeuvre. It undertakes nothing less than a deconstruction of the phenomenological principle of principles, intuitionism, and the touchstone experience called touching. In a circulation through the history of philosophy since Aristotle up to the work of his contemporary and beloved friend Jean-Luc Nancy, the epochal thinker of touch, this book comes from and goes to the very heart of Derrida’s thought.”—Peggy Kamuf,University of Southern California About the Author Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Rogues (2005), Eyes of the University (2004), For What Tomorrow… with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2004), Negotiations (2002), Who’s Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by the Stanford University Press. Read more

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⭐DERRIDA MASTERS NANCY’S LANGUAGE:PART I: this book has been in circulation in the United States for 8 years and this is the “first” review on Amazon. What’s wrong here? America is generally behind Europe in philosophical thinking; but not that far behind. We should have already realized that Jean-Luc Nancy is the pinnacle of post-modern thinking in the world today. Derrida, a notable post-modern, in his own right, offers this book-of-praise for the jean-Luc Nancy he truly admires. Perhaps Derrida is a little difficult to read and that’s why the slow appreciation for this manuscript. I do not know for certain, but I know it is brilliant and should be read by anyone seeking an understanding of post-modern thought.This book could be understood as a series of “word-studies”, where Derrida lifts Nancy’s metaphors out of their signification and gives them conceptual articulation, while mentioning the need to keep them alive and dynamic. Therefore, it is a manuscript of “lifting”, lifting up Nancy’s language into the work of consciousness.The reader will find that the dialectical-circle of “turning” toward the “other”, also contains; nested within it, the “TRIAD-OF-TOUCH”. Which passes from “incommensurability” to “thought-picture” to “exscription”. This will include the evaluative work of “weighing”, which takes up the latent promise of “event”. The opening and closing of the mouth in lip-sync is also tied to the circle of “standing-in” and “stepping-back” at the composition threshold of spirit.There are so many metaphors that are precisely explained, that this manuscript fulfills the Wittgenstein-type-wish for all Nancy-fans. Even those metaphors of “throwing” and “fold” are addressed concerning the motivational conditioning that must assist cognitive work when transferring from unconsciousness to consciousness.I feel that Derrida has succeeded in “touching” the “otherness” of Nancy’s philosophy, without disfiguring that same otherness-type-appearance.This is grad-level material and demands a careful and unrushed reading. The benefit from such a reading will outweigh the energy spent. For a “first” review I will add that American scholars need to catch- up and get on with appropriating this material. Jean-Luc Nancy will demand American evaluative dialogue as well.PART II: this book is split into two parts: I. “ORIGINARY-INSCRIPTION”. Pp. 1-92; and II. “REFLEXIVE-RE-INSCRIPTION”. Pp. 135-216. Total pages = 173.PART II:In this second part Derrida enters into the Praxis-side of “exscribing”, and the reflexive simultaneous moment of returning for a new “inscription” within the self’s unconscious. He takes the reader systematically through: the “hand-of-touching” in exscribing; the “hand-of-being-touched” in reflexive return; and finally, the “hand-of-writing” the new inscription after passing through the triad of: God, Death, and Flesh. “Flesh” here refers to “carnal-subjectivity”.I felt the second section was superb and so systematically presented that the reader comes away with a beautiful thought-picture of Nancy’s system all the way through the full circle of Inscribing-Exscribing- Re-inscribing. Do not neglect tangents 1-3. They are jewels of insight. Of course; I’ve already mentioned how profound the work was in the first section on the Psyche. What a superb work. This second section was equally, if not more, “amazing”. 5-stars.

⭐It arrived in a perfect condition just yesterday.I will read it shortly. So at present I cannot writeany commnents on the contents.H. Utsunomiya

⭐Annabelle – This is not that book from the 60’s. My guess is that you are thinking ofTouching: The Human Significance of the Skin https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060960280/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_06NcFb6M6Q6JAThough check out Job’s Body and books by Tiffany Field and Mary Bond if the science, philosophy, and practice of living in your body is something that interests you.

⭐I read a book in the 1960’s called “On Touching” but no memory of the author. It pointed out how important touch was to babies and studies in orphanages of babies who didn’t thrive due to lack of touch. I wonder is this is the same book or if anyone knows of the one I read? Thank you.

⭐A brilliant response to the philosophy of the tactile from Derrida. Enjoyable reading, too.

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