Nancy and the Political

Sanja Dejanovic is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Trent University

• List of Contributors Introduction: Sense, Praxis, and the Political Sanja DejanovicEvent of Sense: Being-With, Ethics, Democracy1. ‘We Must Become What We Are’: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology as Ethos and Praxis Marie-Eve Morin2. Badiou and Nancy: Political Animals Christopher Watkin3. Nancy and Hegel: Freedom, Democracy and the Loss of the Power to Signify Emilia Angelova4. The Event of Democracy François Raffoul5. Thinking Nancy’s ‘Political Philosophy’ Ignaas DevischEverything is Not Political6. Image-Politics: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontological Rehabilitation of the Image Alison Ross7. Immanent Surface: Art and the Demand for Signification Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield8. The Separated Gesture: Partaking in the Inoperative Praxis of the Already-Unmade John Paul RiccoThe Political Between Two Infinities: Evaluations9. Im-mundus or Nancy’s Globalising-World-Formation Jean-Paul Martinon10. Precarity/Abandonment Philip Armstrong11. ‘A Struggle between Two Infinities’: Jean-Luc Nancy on Marx’s Revolution and Ours Jason E. SmithIndex

This volume of essays offers a thoroughgoing and nuanced account of Nancy’s thinking of the political. Nancy’s separation of the political from what he calls ‘the sense of the world’ yields one of the most original and important contemporary reconfigurations of the practice of politics, of ethics and of justice.