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Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination.

Series Editors:

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Volumes in the Series:

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Edited by S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Anat Matar

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Edited by David Scott

Understanding James, Understanding Modernism

Edited by David H. Evans

Understanding Rancire, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Patrick M. Bray

Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Christopher Langlois

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Ariane Mildenberg

Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Douglas Burnham and Brian Pines

Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jean-Michel Rabat

Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Robin Truth Goodman

Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael F. Miller

Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Mark Steven

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Maria Margaroni

Understanding iek, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua

Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Cosmin Toma

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Paola Marrati

Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Philippe Birgy

Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Arka Chattopadhyay and Arthur Rose

Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism

Edited by
Cosmin Toma

Contents

Nicholas Cotton teaches French literature at the Collge douard-Montpetit (Longueuil, Quebec). He was Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Fonds de recherche du Qubec Socit et culture) at Princeton University from 2020 to 2021. His doctoral thesis, which he defended at the Universit de Montral in 2020, analyzes the concept of perversion in the work of Jacques Derrida, and will be published under the title Penser la pervertibilit Avec Jacques Derrida. He is also the co-editor, with Ginette Michaud, of Derridas seminar Le parjure et le pardon (Galile, 201920), as well as the author of several pieces on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.

Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis. His research explores the relation between fiction and autobiography, critical theory, aesthetics, French film, and translation. He is the author of The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett (Fordham UP, 2014) and the working title of his current research project is Effacements: Blanchot, the Deathly Image, and the Cinema of Disfiguration. He has also translated a number of literary and philosophical works into English, including Jean-Luc Nancys The Ground of the Image (Fordham UP, 2005).

Juan Manuel Garrido is Professor of Philosophy at Alberto Hurtado University (Chile). His research interests include the philosophical concept of life as well as the philosophy of knowledge production and scientific practice. He is the author of Produccin de conocimiento (Metales Pesados, 2018), On Time, Being and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life (Fordham UP, 2012), Chances de la pense. partir de Jean-Luc Nancy (Galile, 2011), and La Formation des formes (Galile, 2008).

Schalk Gerber is currently completing a PhD in philosophy at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His doctoral thesis is a sustained inquiry into the problem of ontological reparation, in dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy and Achille Mbembe. He has published articles on Nancy, Mbembe, and Richard Kearney.

Andrea Gyenge is Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. Her main research project, Swallow: The Mouth in Cinema, an extension of her doctoral thesis at the University of Minnesota, is a sustained exploration of the motif of the mouth in philosophy, art, and technology. She is also working on a study of film and video media during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1990s provisionally entitled The Life-Image: An Essay in Biopolitical Resistance. Gyenges writings have been published in Angelaki and Cultural Critique, among other journals.

Stefanie Heine is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on modernist literature, intermediality, and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literatures Syncope (SUNY Press, 2021) and Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolfs Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchots Image (Turia + Kant, 2014). She has also co-edited several volumes, including Reading Breath in Literature (Palgrave, 2018), Transaktualitt. sthetische Dauerhaftigen und Flchtigkeit (Wilhelm Fink, 2017), and Die Kunst der Rezeption (Aisthesis, 2014).

Sarah Hickmott is Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. Her research focuses on the relationship between contemporary French thought and ecological, social, cultural, and political concerns. Her first book is entitled Music, Philosophy and Gender in Contemporary French Thought: Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou (Edinburgh UP, 2020) and it explores the way music has been used, understood, or characterized in recent French thought.

Ian James is Professor of Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary French literature and philosophy. He is the author of The Technique of Thought: Nancy, Laruelle, Stiegler and Malabou after Naturalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), The New French Philosophy (Polity, 2012), Paul Virilio (Routledge, 2007), The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford UP, 2006), and Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Oxford Legenda, 2000). He is also co-editor of Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (Oxford Literary Review, vol. 27, 2005).

Michael Krimper teaches comparative literature at New York University. He specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century and Francophone Anglophone literature, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of aesthetics and politics in transatlantic modernisms. His articles, reviews, and translations have been published in