Being Singular Plural

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural."

One of the strongest strands in Nancy's philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or subjectivity. The fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739757
• ISBN13: 9780804739757
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"