The Creation of the World or Globalization

The Creation of the World or Globalization

ISBN-10:
0791470261
ISBN-13:
9780791470268
Pub. Date:
03/06/2007
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
0791470261
ISBN-13:
9780791470268
Pub. Date:
03/06/2007
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
The Creation of the World or Globalization

The Creation of the World or Globalization

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Overview

Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-forming), Nancy undertakes a rethinking of what "world-forming" might mean. At stake in this distinction is for him nothing less than two possible destinies of our humanity, and of our time. On the one hand, with globalization, there is the uniformity produced by a global economical and technological logic leading to the contrary of an inhabitable world, "the un-world" (l'im-monde)—as Nancy refers to it—an un-world that entails social disintegration, misery, and injustice. And, on the other hand, there is the possibility of an authentic world-forming, that is, of a making of the world and of a making sense that Nancy calls a "creation" of the world. Nancy understands such world-forming in terms of an inexhaustible struggle for justice. This book is an important contribution by Nancy to a philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of globalization and a further development on his earlier works on our being-in-common, justice, and a-theological existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791470268
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03/06/2007
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Edition description: ANN
Pages: 137
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is the coauthor (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) of The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan and The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism, both also published, in translation, by SUNY Press. François Raffoul is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University, and David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. In addition to translating The Title of the Letter, they have translated many other books, including The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan by Juan-David Nasio, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Translators’ Acknowledgments
Translators’ Introduction

Author’s Prefatory Note to the English Language Edition         
Author’s Prefatory Note to the French Language Edition

I. Urbi et Orbi

II. Of Creation

III. Creation as Denaturation: Metaphysical Technology

IV. Complements

Notes
Index

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