A Poetics at the Limit of the Subject: Nancy’s Philosophy of Singular Being in Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer”
In concluding the Preface to La communauté désoeuvrée, Jean-Luc Nancy laments the possibility (or likelihood) that as human beings we will soon be deprived of our finite existence, the experience of the finitude at the essence of our being. The myth of much contemporary discourse, the myth Nancy ho...
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E-rea
2011
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| Résumé: | In concluding the Preface to La communauté désoeuvrée, Jean-Luc Nancy laments the possibility (or likelihood) that as human beings we will soon be deprived of our finite existence, the experience of the finitude at the essence of our being. The myth of much contemporary discourse, the myth Nancy hopes to interrupt with “literary communism,” is the sublation or overcoming of finitude. In articulating a discourse of “singularity” Nancy disrupts the narrative flow of subjectivity. He does not p... |
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