Le Toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy by DERRIDA, JACQUES - 2000

Collection Incises. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 9.25", shows shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages 9 and 11 have underlining and annotations to margin. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. Two-page sheet ("Prière d'insérer") is laid in. 349 pages."Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book "Corpus" he discusses in detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chrétien are discussed, as are René Descartes, Diderot, Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. The scope of Derrida's deliberations makes this book a virtual encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body).Derrida gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc… Read More