Fragmentary Demand

Ian James is a Fellow in French and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (2000).

"As an introductory overview to a major contemporary thinker, James's book is exemplary: the exposition is economical and clear, and combines useful contextual background with sustained sequences of detailed exegesis. James has a real knack for the concise presentation of complex ideas, and draws to good effect on Nancy's own tendency to work closely with and through other thinkers' work." - Radical Philosophy "James shows himself to be an insightful and sophisticated expositor, carefully situating Nancy's work within the Continental tradition and detailing the central concepts and developments that constitute Nancy's own unique philosophical project." - Continental Philosophy Review "This is a disciplined exposition of both the origins of Jean-Luc Nancy's work and its most recent shifts of emphasis...James makes an invaluable contribution to the reception of comtemporary European Philosophy in the English-speaking world. His synthetic skill, in particular his choice of topics and illustrating quotations, is impeccable." - Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii Abbreviationsiii @toc2:Introduction: The Fragmentary Demand0 Chapter One: Subjectivity00 @toc3:Introduction000 Kant and the Foundations of Philosophy000 The Persistence of the Subject000 @toc2:Chapter Two: Space000 @toc3:Introduction000 Space: Classical and Phenomenological000 Heidegger and Existential Spatiality000 The Sense of Space: Nancy's Thinking of Spatiality000 @toc2:Chapter Three: Body000 @toc3:Introduction000 Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenological Body000 Nancy's Corpus000 Ecotechnics and Writing000 @toc2:Chapter Four: Community000 @toc3:Introduction000 The Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political000 The Inoperative Community000 Literary Communism000 @toc2:Chapter Five: Art000 @toc3:Introduction000 Untying Hegel: Art, Sense, Technicity000 Image--Touching the Real000 @toc2:Conclusion000 @toc3:On the Creation of the World000 @toc4:Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000