Jean-Luc Nancy - Videos
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Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher, author and writer and Claire Denis, filmmaker and director discuss Denis's film "35 Shots of Rum." In this discussion Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy talk about family dynamics, love, incest, ritual, suicide, the Caribbean, colonialism, Alex Descas, May 68, Yasujir? Ozu, "The Intruder," and the artist formally known as Prince. This is the fourth lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about religion, reason and society. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of reason, logos, religion, civil society, civilization, the good, melancholia, secularization and tragedy, in relationship to the Greeks, Plato, the Sophists, Christianity, Sigmund Freud, 'Moses and Monotheism', Rousseau, and Saint Augustine, focusing on separation of church and state, politics, Fascism and the 'City of God'. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, answering students' questions. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of 'Touching', art, tragedy, poetry, reason and the sublime, in relationship to Immanuel Kant, Heidegger and modernization, focusing on technology, modernization, community and art. European Graduate School EGS
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about Mitsein, 'Touching' and sense. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of minimal distance, movement, proximity, World, affect and intellectualization, and sexuality, in relationship to Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger, focusing on categories, sense, touching, Mitsein and existentials. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about art, culture and the political. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of faith, art, the political, retrieving the political, belief, Pascal's Wager, and otherness, in relationship to Umberto Eco, and Maurice Blanchot, focusing on Fascism, the political, and democracy. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the death of God and art. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of on modernity, the death of God, contemporary art, form, metaphysics, death, momento mori, reason and spirit, in relationship to Kant, 'The Critique of Judgment', Cezanne, Joyce, Heidegger and Husserl, focusing on the novel, death, the end of philosophy, art and philosophy, and worldlessness. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the sacred, the profane and World. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts self, World, the open, the sacred and the profane, in relationship to Heidegger, Pasolini, Beckett, focusing on art, modernity and holiness. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about reason, sense, the infinite and World. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of essence, reason, dialectics, bad infinity, self, and the other, in relationship to Hegel, Bataille, and the infinite return to the self, focusing on sense, the other and otherness, thinking, reflection and love. European Graduate School EGS
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about God, Man, Genesis and the World. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of World, existence, God, Man, nihilism, nothingness and the sacred, in relationship to Christ and Socrates, Christianity, philosophy and Nieztsche, focusing on love or glory, meaning, causality, creation and 'today'. European Graduate School EGS
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the sacred and the temple in contemporary society. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the infinite, bad infinity and actual infinity, the sacred, the temple, prohibition, limit and the conditions for possibility, in relationship to homo sacer, Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, focusing on human rights, and the sacred today. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about art and the sacred. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of form, infinity, art, the sacred, homo sacer, philosophy, religion, mysticism and poetry, in relationship to Kant, Adorno and political power, focusing on the opening to infinity. European Graduate School EGS
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about God, Man and mystery. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the Cogito, truth, reason, God, phallus, desire and sexuality, religion, redemption and incarnation, in relationship to retroactive meaning, the mysteries of desire and sexuality, pain and pleasure, Hegel and Heidegger, focusing on presence and absence, nothing and nothingness, mystery of religion, secrets and revolution. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
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Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, lecturing on mystery, art, psychoanalysis. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the unconscious, drive, instinct, causality, form and content, in relationship to mythology, Leonardo da Vinci, Jaconda, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust and William Faulkner, focusing on the beginning and the end, action and the infinite. European Graduate School EGS
Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy at Festival della Filosofia in Modena, Italy 2009 at Fahrenheit (Radio3) In Italian
Nancy's first intensive attempt to lecture on technology, exploring the notion of disorientation as the state of meaning today. In German, no translation. The lecture is titled Destruction as Remembering the Struction or the Techne. "Destruktion als Erinnerung der Struktion oder Techne."
Nancy, reads from a text on Goethe's Faust and discusses it first in relation to an art installation for Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani "Island of Silence". At the end of the lecture he reflects back on what the text has said about art.
Nancy and Claire Denis discussing and screening their collaboration L'Intrus/The Intruder. Denis created the movie from Nancy's book.
A conversation between philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and filmmaker Claire Denis after screening Sympathy For The Devil, a film by Jean-Luc Godard based on the song from the Rolling Stones.
In the face of globalization, where Western is no longer Western, where meaning is only in the frame between dominator and dominated, which offers us only the finalities of 'progress' and the improvement of the human condition, Nancy asserts the need to deconstruct Christianity.