Nancy and the World Without Sense

  • Daniele Rugo
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Abstract

The chapter is occupied by an exhaustive analysis of Nancy’s investigation of the sense of the world. Nancy invokes a return to the world structured as a retracing of the tradition. The demand for thought today is then to think through what the tradition has offered us in order to open it up, differently from how it pictures itself.

The analysis is developed from the question What does it mean that the world is without sense?’ and pays particular attention to the Nancean project of deconstruction of Christianity. Nancy pictures the West’s relation to the world as one that is entirely permeated by absence. The unfolding of this absence produces a world without given sense out of which Nancy develops the idea of a surpassing of knowledge as decisive for man’s relation to the world and its sense. Nancy’s proximity with Cavell is made explicit here.

Keywords

Double Movement Rationalist Tradition Translation Mine Divine Presence External Principle 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Daniele Rugo
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  1. 1.Dept. of Social Sciences, Media & CommunicationsBrunel UniversityLondonUK

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