Intoxication (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) (Hardcover)

Intoxication (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) By Jean-Luc Nancy, Philip Armstrong (Translator) Cover Image
By Jean-Luc Nancy, Philip Armstrong (Translator)
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.

About the Author


Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Among the most recent of his many books to be published in English are Corpus; Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity; The Truth of Democracy; Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II; Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality; The Pleasure in Drawing; Identity: Fragments, Frankness; After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes; and, with Frederico Ferrari, Being Nude: The Skin of Images (all Fordham). Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780823267729
ISBN-10: 0823267725
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Date: December 1st, 2015
Pages: 72
Language: English
Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory