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ISBN
9781531508975
Publisert
2024-10-01
Utgiver
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Fordham University Press
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
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Foreword by
Om bidragsyterne
Jean-Luc Nancy (Author)Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université 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.
Jean-Christophe Bailly (Foreword By)
Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists’ catalogs in French.
Cory Stockwell (Translator)
Cory Stockwell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His translations include books by Mariette Navarro and Pascal Bruckner.
Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy
In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
Far from an abstract account, Nancy attends in the most concrete way possible to the workings of a city not typically taken as paradigmatic, Los Angeles. As Jean-Christophe Bailly suggests in his foreword, Nancy joins Walter Benjamin in thinking the city not from an external vantage point, but on its own terms.
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Nancy’s book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
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Foreword: The City beyond the Place | vii
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Preface: The Uncivil City | xi
The City in the Distance | 1
First Part (1987): In the Distance . . . Los Angeles | 3
Second Part (1999): The City in the Distance | 16
Images of the City | 36
Traffic/Click | 60
The Two Futures of the City | 82
An Art of the City | 90
Rumoration | 111
Moments of the City | 114
Acknowledgments | 119
Notes | 121
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Written in a tone that is always poetic, at times even lyrical, The City in the Distance is thought-provoking and a pleasure to read. As a philosophical and writerly meditation, a research-creation of sorts, the book invests a place (here the city of Los Angeles) with words and language in order to make it produce its own space and time.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781531508975
Publisert
2024-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter
Oversetter
Foreword by
Om bidragsyterne
Jean-Luc Nancy (Author)Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université 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.
Jean-Christophe Bailly (Foreword By)
Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists’ catalogs in French.
Cory Stockwell (Translator)
Cory Stockwell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His translations include books by Mariette Navarro and Pascal Bruckner.