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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations. Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment...
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Dos filósofos conversan sobre la situación del arte en la actualidad: lo que quiere decir de hoy en adelante, lo que, lejos de ser una palabra anticuada, nos permite reflexionar de nuevo. El elaborado pensamiento de Jean-Luc Nancy sobre este tema es retomado y también continuado en el curso de una discusión en la que Lèbre se interroga con él sobre la mejor manera de aprehender el compromiso del cuerpo sensible en la actividad artística y la...
3) Intoxication
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication...
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