City in the Distance

Jean-Luc Nancy (Author) Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century's foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.Jean-Christophe Bailly (Foreword By) Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists' catalogs in French.Cory Stockwell (Translator) Cory Stockwell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His translations include books by Mariette Navarro and Pascal Bruckner.

• Foreword: The City beyond the Place viiJean-Christophe BaillyPreface: The Uncivil City xiThe City in the Distance 1First Part (1987): In the Distance . . . Los Angeles 3Second Part (1999): The City in the Distance 16Images of the City 36Traffic/Click 60The Two Futures of the City 82An Art of the City 90Rumoration 111Moments of the City 114Acknowledgments 119Notes 121