http://www.egs.edu Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about art and the sacred. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of form, infinity, art, the sacred, homo sacer, philosophy, religion, mysticism and poetry, in relationship to Kant, Adorno and political power, focusing on the opening to infinity. Public lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Jean-Luc Nancy.
Jean-Luc Nancy (b. 1940, Cauderan, France) is the G. W. F. Hegel Chair at the European Graduate School. Nancy received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1973, writing a dissertation on Immanuel Kant, under the supervision of the esteemed French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur. Shortly following his graduation, Nancy became the 'maître de conférences' at the University of Strasbourg. During the following decades Nancy lectured at numerous universities, including the Institut de Philosophie in Strasbourg, Freie Universität in Berlin, and the University of California. In addition to his professorships, in 1980, together with his long-time collaborator Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy organized the infamous Les fins de l'homme conference. Two remarkable and ambitious books emerged from this conference: Rejouer le politique (1981) and Le retrait du politique (Retreating the Political, 1997). Later, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe founded the Centre for Philosophical Research of the Political. The spirit of this center, in the years following its genesis, also became the topic of lectures given by numerous prominent philosophers, including: Claude Lefort and Jean-François Lyotard. Jean-Luc Nancy has also been involved in numerous cultural delegations of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1987 Jean-Luc Nancy was elected docteur d'état (doctor of state) in Toulouse with the congratulations of the jury. His dissertation, published as L'expérience de la liberté (The Experience of Freedom, 1988), dealt with the question of freedom in the work of Kant, Schelling and Heidegger.
Jean-Luc Nancy's work bears the inscription of a diverse community of thinkers; most notably, Martin Heidegger, G.W.F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Maurice Blanchot. His work, however, bears another equally deep inscription, his dedication to 'the social' and 'the political'. Nancy's social and political commitments, along with the preeminent theoretical work on those commitments, has long placed him in the great tradition of politically engaged French philosophers. Perhaps his most famous work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperable Community) published in 1982, speaks precisely about this synthesis.
The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, Nancy's and Lacoue-Labarthe's first book, published in 1973, was unreservedly received by Jacque Lacan himself, who wrote "I can say, in a way, if it is a question of reading, that I have never been read so well...". Nancy followed this work with books on Hegel, The Speculative Remark, Kant, L'impératif catégorique, and Heidegger, Le partage des voix, all which are considered to be both accurate accounts and monumental readings -- a combination hard to come by in philosophy. Nancy influence in the philosophical world, particularly in political and social philosophy only grew with the publication of Le sens du monde (The Sense of the World, 1993) and Être singulier pluriel (Being Singular Plural, 2000). Beginning in the 1990's Nancy began to extend his attention to art and culture, most notably in the publication of Les Muses (The Muses, 1996), and The Evidence of Film (2001), and his adaptation of Goethe's timeless masterpiece, Faust, Part One. Nancy's semi-biographical work, L'intrus: the intruder (2000), served as the inspiration for a film of the same name, directed by Claire Denis in 2004.
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