Jean-Luc Nancy

Today, political correctness demands that we say in French droits humains when we used to say droits de l’homme . This demand, which also occurs in other areas, is made because the French homme, like man in English, does not distinguish between the human race and the male gender. German ...
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The Arab peoples are sig­ni­fy­ing to us that res­ist­ance and revolt are with us once again, and that his­tory is mov­ing bey­ond His­tory. They are doing it, as is appro­pri­ate, with all the for­tune and mis­for­tune that it involves. At the very least they have sent an irre­vers­ible sig­nal whose effects we can expect ...
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The fol­low­ing is the recent response by Jean-​Luc Nancy to the decision to shut down the French, Italian and Rus­sian depart­ments at the Uni­ver­sity at Albany, SUNY. It is a state­ment of gen­eral sig­ni­fic­ance, lament­ing the tend­ency every­where to for­sake human­it­ies and the think­ing it engenders at the behest of the mar­ket and (cap­it­al­ist) globalization. ...
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The fol­low­ing are the notes that Jean-​Luc Nancy pre­pared for the con­fer­ence ‘On the Idea of Com­mun­ism’, March 2009. An edited ver­sion is avail­able in Cos­tas Douz­i­nas & Sla­voj Zizek (eds), The Idea of Com­mun­ism (Verso, Lon­don 2010) 145 – 53. Com­mun­ism, the word. Not the word before the notion, but the word as notion and as ...
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