The City in the Distance by Jean-Luc Nancy Paperback Book

Description: The City in the Distance by Jean-Luc Nancy, Cory Stockwell, Jean-Christophe Bailly Nancys 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc NancyIn 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. Author Biography 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 centurys 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. Table of Contents Foreword: The City beyond the Place | viiJean-Christophe BaillyPreface: The Uncivil City | xiThe City in the Distance | 1First Part (1987): In the Distance . . . Los Angeles | 3Second Part (1999): The City in the Distance | 16Images of the City | 36Traffic/Click | 60The Two Futures of the City | 82An Art of the City | 90Rumoration | 111Moments of the City | 114Acknowledgments | 119Notes | 121 Review Nancys little book helps us dispel the notion that there is a primordial stability of home to be defended against the disruptions of migration. For Nancy, the life of the city exemplifies the mobility or passing by that is characteristic of being with as an ontological condition.---Rafael Sánchez, Graduate Institute of GenevaWritten 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.---Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University Details ISBN1531508979 Author Jean-Christophe Bailly Pages 160 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2024 Translator Cory Stockwell ISBN-13 9781531508975 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-10-01 Imprint Fordham University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2024-10-01 Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 1531508979 UK Release Date 2024-10-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161279375;

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