Jean-Luc Nancy

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Jean-Luc Nancy
Nancy in 2006 at the European Graduate School
Born	(1940-07-26)26 July 1940 Caudéran, Gironde, France
Died	23 August 2021(2021-08-23) (aged 81)
Alma mater	University of Paris Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Deconstruction
Institutions	University of Strasbourg The European Graduate School
Main interests	Literary criticism Ontology Political philosophy Philosophy of technology
Notable ideas	Existence as ontological responsibility, sense of the world, inoperative community, non-subjective freedom, anastasis,[1] dis-enclosure, being singular plural, being-with, sexistence

Jean-Luc Nancy (/nɑːnˈsiː/ nahn-SEE; French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher.^[2] Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.

In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Nancy is credited with helping to reopen the question of the ground of community and politics with his 1985 work La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community), following Blanchot's The Unavowable Community (1983) and Agamben responded to both with The Coming Community (1990). One of the very few monographs that Jacques Derrida ever wrote on a contemporary philosopher is On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy.^[3]