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Author(s): Jacques Derrida
ISBN(s): 9780804742436, 080474243X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.27 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 080474243X 
ISBN 13: 9780804742436
Author: Jacques Derrida

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 Chrétien are discussed, as are René Descartes, Diderot, Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. The scope of Derrida’s deliberations makes this book a virtual encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body).

Derrida gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Deconstruction of Christianity,” devotes a section of the book to the sense of touch in the Gospels. Another section concentrates on “the flesh,” as treated by Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake. Derrida’s critique of intuitionism, notably in the phenomenological tradition, is one of the guiding threads of the book.

On Touching includes a wealth of notes that provide an extremely useful bibliographical resource. Personal and detached all at once, this book, one of the first published in English translation after Jacques Derrida’s death, serves as a useful and poignant retrospective on the work of the philosopher. A tribute by Jean-Luc Nancy, written a day after Jacques Derrida’s death, is an added feature.

On Touching Jean luc Nancy 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Body and Its Limits

  • Nancy’s Exploration of the Body in Relation to Being

  • The Body as the Site of Sensory Experience

  • The Boundaries of the Body and the Notion of Limit

Chapter 2: Touch and the Question of Presence

  • Touch as a Means of Being with the World

  • The Relationship Between Touch and Presence

  • Nancy’s Critique of Presence as a Metaphysical Concept

Chapter 3: The Impossibility of Pure Touch

  • The Paradox of Touch in Nancy’s Thought

  • The Sensory and Conceptual Limits of Touch

  • Touch as Both Encounter and Withdrawal

Chapter 4: The Experience of the Other

  • The Role of the Other in Nancy’s Philosophy of Touch

  • Touch as a Medium for Encountering the Other

  • Ethics and Politics of Touch: Beyond the Self

Chapter 5: Touch and the Political

  • Nancy’s Notion of “Community” and Its Relation to Touch

  • The Political Implications of a Philosophy of Touch

  • Touch as a Metaphor for Collective Being

Chapter 6: Touch and the Aesthetic

  • The Aesthetic Dimension of Touch in Nancy’s Work

  • Touch in Art, Literature, and Philosophy

  • Aesthetic Experience as a Way of Understanding Touch

Chapter 7: The Language of Touch

  • How Language Relates to the Sensory Experience of Touch

  • Touch as a Form of Expression Beyond Words

  • The Interplay Between Touch, Silence, and Meaning

Chapter 8: Toward a Philosophy of the Tactile

  • The Future of Philosophy and the Tactile Experience

  • Rethinking Metaphysics, Presence, and Touch in Modern Thought

  • Nancy’s Legacy and Influence on Contemporary Philosophy

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