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Home/People/Jean-Luc Nancy
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Born
Jul 26, 1940Died: Aug 23, 2021
Lived 81 years
Place of Birth
Bordeaux, France
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

8
Movies
1
TV Shows
IMDb Profile

Jean-Luc Nancy

Writing

Biography
Jean-Luc Nancy (/nɑːnˈsiː/ nahn-SEE; French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger. In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with helping to reopen the question of the ground of community and politics with his 1985 work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community), following Blanchot's The Unavowable Community (1983) and Agamben responded to both with The Coming Community (1990). One of the very few monographs that Jacques Derrida ever wrote on a contemporary philosopher is On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Luc Nancy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Man, That Old Sick Animal

as self
2020
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Smugglers' Songs

as L'imprimeur Jean-Luc Cynan
2012
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Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies

Cast
2009
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The Ister

as Himself
2004
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

as (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002
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Vers Nancy

Cast
2002
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Dialogues clandestins 2001

Cast
2001
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Derrida's Elsewhere

as Himself
1999