Nancy and Visual Culture

Carrie Giunta is a freelance writer and visiting research fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Giunta’s writing has been published in Radical Philosophy, teleSUR English and The Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Books). Her recent publications include a chapter entitled “Community in Fragments: Reading Relation in the Fragments of Heraclitus” in the edited collection Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (Rowman & Littlefield). Adrienne Janus is Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, where she works across the areas of theatre and performance studies, English and Comparative Literature.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Image of Visual Culture, Adrienne Janus; 1. Cutting and Letting-Be, Martin Crowley; 2. Dancing Equality: Image, Imitation and Participation,Christopher Watkin; 3. A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance, Return and Relation in Charlie Chaplin, Carrie Giunta; 4. The Image: Mimesis and Methexis Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Adrienne Janus; 5. On the Threshold: Visual Culture, Invisible Nature, Adrienne Janus; 6. Pornosophy: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Pornographic Image, Peter Banki; 7. Presentation and Disappearance / Présentation et Disparition, Translated by Adrienne Janus; 8. Writing in the Place of the Animal, Phillip Warnell; 9. Together at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy, Art and Community, Lorna Collins; 10. Turning Around the Written Mark, Opening from a Weight of Thought, Robert Luzar; 11. Uncanny Landscapes of Photography: The Partage of Double-exposure After Jean-Luc Nancy, Chris Heppell

Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures.