On Touchinga Jean-Luc Nancy

by Jacques Derrida

Book Overview

Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chr tien are discussed, as are Ren Descartes, Diderot, Maine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804742448
• ISBN13: 9780804742443
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"