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Jean-Luc Nancy. The Temple and the Sacred Today

Title:Jean-Luc Nancy. The Temple and the Sacred Today
Date:08/01/2010Length:1:18:38
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