The Singular Politics of Jean Luc Nancy

by Joanna Hodge

Ontology is the Greek/classical term for the theory of what exists. Jean-Luc Nancy, however, reinvents ontology as a theory of political contestation, and thereby proposes a model of philosophy as collective practice. The key advance made by Nancy is to link a theory of innovation and meaning to a theory of a contestation of worlds, which for him forms the basic structure of the practices of politics and political analysis. This book locates the cumulative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474252796
• ISBN13: 9781474252799
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages