The Birth to Presence

by Jean-Luc Nancy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But what comes after the West? What comes after representation's disclosure of its own limit?

The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterizes being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804721890
• ISBN13: 9780804721899
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"