Verlag:
Fordham University Press, New York, NY
;
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin
Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious...
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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations.Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment against immigration, Nancy problematizes anew the notions of identity, nation, and national identity. He seeks to show that there is never a given identity but always an open process of identification that retains an exposure to difference. Thus identity can never operate as a self-identical subject, such as “the French.”Ultimately, for Nancy, one does not have an identity but has to become one. One can never return to a self-same identity but can only seek to locate oneself within difference and singularity. Nancy shows the impasse of a certain conception of identity that he calls the “identity of the identifiable,” which refers to some permanent, given, substantial identity. In opposition to such identity, Nancy offers the identity of whatever or whoever invents itself in an open process of exposure to others and internal difference. Hence, an identity is never given but “makes itself by seeking and inventing itself.” One does not have an identity, but is an identity.Identity is an act, not a state.This important book will provide much-needed philosophical clarification of a complex and strategic notion at the center of many current events and discussions.
Phenomenology and facticityFrom phenomenological immortality to natality / Anthony J. Steinbock -- On the genesis of Heidegger's formally indicative hermeneutics of facticity / Theodore Kisiel -- Factical life and the need for philosophy / François Raffoul-- Heidegger and the hermeneutics of facticity -- The passion of facticity / Giorgio Agamben -- The being-with of the being-there / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Heidegger and the ethics of facticity / Eric Sean Nelson -- Intransitive facticity : a question to Heidegger / Rudy Visker -- Race, embodiment, and the unconscious -- I can race be thought in terms of facticity : a reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's existential theories of race / Robert Bernascon-- Merleau-Ponty on fact and essence / Bernard Flynn -- The chiasm and the remainder (how does touching touch itself?) / Jacob Rogozinski -- The unconscious body : a lacanian perspective / David Pettigrew -- Contemporary perspectives -- Keeping art to its edge / Ed Casey -- Existence authoritarian : compulsion, facticity and the philosophy of identity / Namita Goswami -- Primordial attunement, hardening, and bearing / Patricia Huntington -- Re: thinking facticity / Gregory Schufreider.
Anthony J. Steinbock: Phenomenology and facticity ; From phenomenological immortality to natality
Theodore Kisiel: On the genesis of Heidegger's formally indicative hermeneutics of facticity
François Raffoul-- Heidegger and the hermeneutics of facticity: Factical life and the need for philosophy
Giorgio Agamben: The passion of facticity
Jean-Luc Nancy: The being-with of the being-there
Eric Sean Nelson: Heidegger and the ethics of facticity
Rudy Visker: Intransitive facticity : a question to Heidegger
Robert Bernascon-- Merleau-Ponty on fact and essence / Bernard Flynn: Race, embodiment, and the unconscious ; I can race be thought in terms of facticity : a reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's existential theories of race
Jacob Rogozinski: The chiasm and the remainder (how does touching touch itself?)
David Pettigrew: The unconscious body : a lacanian perspective
Ed Casey: Contemporary perspectives ; Keeping art to its edge
Namita Goswami: Existence authoritarian : compulsion, facticity and the philosophy of identity
Patricia Huntington: Primordial attunement, hardening, and bearing
Phenomenology and facticityFrom phenomenological immortality to natality / Anthony J. Steinbock -- On the genesis of Heidegger's formally indicative hermeneutics of facticity / Theodore Kisiel -- Factical life and the need for philosophy / François Raffoul-- Heidegger and the hermeneutics of facticity -- The passion of facticity / Giorgio Agamben -- The being-with of the being-there / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Heidegger and the ethics of facticity / Eric Sean Nelson -- Intransitive facticity : a question to Heidegger / Rudy Visker -- Race, embodiment, and the unconscious -- I can race be thought in terms of facticity : a reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's existential theories of race / Robert Bernascon-- Merleau-Ponty on fact and essence / Bernard Flynn -- The chiasm and the remainder (how does touching touch itself?) / Jacob Rogozinski -- The unconscious body : a lacanian perspective / David Pettigrew -- Contemporary perspectives -- Keeping art to its edge / Ed Casey -- Existence authoritarian : compulsion, facticity and the philosophy of identity / Namita Goswami -- Primordial attunement, hardening, and bearing / Patricia Huntington -- Re: thinking facticity / Gregory Schufreider.
Anthony J. Steinbock: Phenomenology and facticity ; From phenomenological immortality to natality
Theodore Kisiel: On the genesis of Heidegger's formally indicative hermeneutics of facticity
François Raffoul-- Heidegger and the hermeneutics of facticity: Factical life and the need for philosophy
Giorgio Agamben: The passion of facticity
Jean-Luc Nancy: The being-with of the being-there
Eric Sean Nelson: Heidegger and the ethics of facticity
Rudy Visker: Intransitive facticity : a question to Heidegger
Robert Bernascon-- Merleau-Ponty on fact and essence / Bernard Flynn: Race, embodiment, and the unconscious ; I can race be thought in terms of facticity : a reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's existential theories of race
Jacob Rogozinski: The chiasm and the remainder (how does touching touch itself?)
David Pettigrew: The unconscious body : a lacanian perspective
Ed Casey: Contemporary perspectives ; Keeping art to its edge
Namita Goswami: Existence authoritarian : compulsion, facticity and the philosophy of identity
Patricia Huntington: Primordial attunement, hardening, and bearing