Expectation : : Philosophy, Literature / / Jean-Luc Nancy.

Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Expectation: Preface to the English-Language Edition
  • "Wet the Ropes!": Poetics of Sense, from Paul Valéry to Jean- Luc Nancy
  • Coda
  • A Kind of Prologue. Menstruum universale
  • Part I LITERATURE
  • "One day the gods withdraw . . .": (Literature/Philosophy: in- between)
  • Reasons to Write
  • Narrative, Narration, Recitative
  • . . . would have to be a novel . . .
  • On the Work and Works
  • To Open the Book
  • Exergues
  • Part II POETRY
  • The Poet's Calculation
  • Reason Demands Poetry: An Interview with Emmanuel Laugier
  • Wozu Dichter
  • Part III SENSE
  • Noli me frangere with Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe
  • Responding for Sense
  • Body-Theater
  • After Tragedy
  • Blanchot's Resurrection
  • The Neutral, Neutralization of the Neutral
  • Exclamations
  • The Only Reading
  • Part IV PARODOS
  • Psyche
  • The Young Carp
  • "Within my breast, alas, two souls . . ."
  • City Moments
  • La Selva
  • Simple Sonnet
  • Dem Sprung hatt ich Leib und Leben zu danken
  • "Let him kiss me with his mouth's kisses"
  • Notes
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