Jean-Luc Nancy

The City in the Distance

Übersetzer: Stockwell, Cory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9781531508968
• ISBN-10: 1531508960
• Artikelnr.: 70016707

Autorenporträt

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 century's 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The City beyond the Place vii
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Preface: The Uncivil City xi
The City in the Distance 1
First Part (1987): In the Distance . . . Los Angeles 3
Second Part (1999): The City in the Distance 16
Images of the City 36
Traffic/Click 60
The Two Futures of the City 82
An Art of the City 90
Rumoration 111
Moments of the City 114
Acknowledgments 119
Notes 121