This volume shows how Nancy was able “to deconstruct” the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existence, corporeality, and community, opening them up to the “disenclosure” of the outside, to the “excription” of the world. In a time in which we are exposed to contagion with others, with everyone else, on the wave of globalization, a thought of the “exposed body,” a reflection such as the one Nancy invites us to make on the “ex-peau-sition,” on the fact that we are all, starting from the skin itself, exposed to and crossed by others, is as important and urgent as ever. It is quite clear how much these reflections can influence today, even on a political level. The dimension of the community outlined by Nancy is not that of a substance that becomes a subject producing the world of meanings, values, and norms, but rather that of finitude capable of exposing itself to its own limit, of standing on its own boundary to grasp that excess, that disproportion of the Being-with that, when crossing it, breaks it and makes it impossible for it to dominate itself. This community is not made up of individuals, but of finite singularities that welcome the limit within themselves and do not leave it outside a presumed unity. Nancy outlines a community dimension that does not claim to become absolute, to assimilate within itself all the dimensions of man, but shows precisely what, by subtracting itself from the concept, from the total transparency of meaning, makes Being as an in-appropriable other. In a multiple proximity of bodies, in which the “us” becomes palpable, touches itself and offers itself to be touched… the image multiplies, splinters, crashes, rejects itself. All this entails a radical reflection on where we come from and our trajectory; in short, on what we want to be “neither places, nor heavens, nor gods […] dismantling and disassembling of enclosed bowers, enclosures, fences.”
The Thought Awaits Us All. Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy
DANIELA CALABRO'
2024-01-01
Abstract
This volume shows how Nancy was able “to deconstruct” the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existence, corporeality, and community, opening them up to the “disenclosure” of the outside, to the “excription” of the world. In a time in which we are exposed to contagion with others, with everyone else, on the wave of globalization, a thought of the “exposed body,” a reflection such as the one Nancy invites us to make on the “ex-peau-sition,” on the fact that we are all, starting from the skin itself, exposed to and crossed by others, is as important and urgent as ever. It is quite clear how much these reflections can influence today, even on a political level. The dimension of the community outlined by Nancy is not that of a substance that becomes a subject producing the world of meanings, values, and norms, but rather that of finitude capable of exposing itself to its own limit, of standing on its own boundary to grasp that excess, that disproportion of the Being-with that, when crossing it, breaks it and makes it impossible for it to dominate itself. This community is not made up of individuals, but of finite singularities that welcome the limit within themselves and do not leave it outside a presumed unity. Nancy outlines a community dimension that does not claim to become absolute, to assimilate within itself all the dimensions of man, but shows precisely what, by subtracting itself from the concept, from the total transparency of meaning, makes Being as an in-appropriable other. In a multiple proximity of bodies, in which the “us” becomes palpable, touches itself and offers itself to be touched… the image multiplies, splinters, crashes, rejects itself. All this entails a radical reflection on where we come from and our trajectory; in short, on what we want to be “neither places, nor heavens, nor gods […] dismantling and disassembling of enclosed bowers, enclosures, fences.”I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
