Sexistence

Jean-Luc Nancy

Published by Fordham University Press 2021

Sexistence

Jean-Luc Nancy
Translated by: Steven Miller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294022

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About this book

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.

This is Nancy’s most developed work on questions of gender and sexuality since Corpus (his most influential book).

Author / Editor information

Nancy Jean-Luc :

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Portrait, The Possibility of a World, The Banality of Heidegger, The Disavowed Community, and Corpus.Miller Steven :

Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Catherine Malabou, Étienne Balibar, and Anne Dufourmantelle.Jean-Luc Nancy (Author)
Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Portrait, The Possibility of a World, The Banality of Heidegger, The Disavowed Community, and Corpus.

Steven Miller (Translator)
Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Catherine Malabou, Étienne Balibar, and Anne Dufourmantelle.

Reviews

Elissa Marder, Emory University:
“Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience.”

Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking:
“Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex—‘neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.’ If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of ‘sex itself,’ Nancy uncovers what we’ve missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound—and profoundly necessary—meditation on sex and being.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preliminaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Lifting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
2. Transmission Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. Appropriation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4. Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
5. Real Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
6. History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
7. Technics and Transcendence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
8. Excessive Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
9. Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
10. Continuous, Discontinuous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
11. Devouring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
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13. Penetration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
14. Too Much, Too Little Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
15. Sex Singular Plural Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
16. not a word / I lacked Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
17. Joy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
18. Troubles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
19. Love Unto Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
20. Love Unto Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
21. Erotic Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: General/trade;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 160
Illustrations
- Other: 1 b/w illustration
Keywords: Philosophy; Sexuality; Gender; Love; Psychoanalysis; Literature; Biopolitics

eBook

Published: May 4, 2021
ISBN: 9780823294022