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Nancy and Visual Culture
Edited by Carrie Giunta and Adrienne Janus
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The first critical appraisal of Jean-Luc Nancy’s immense contribution to contemporary visual culture
In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy’s work, these 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy’s essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy’s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the most original and compelling of those contemporary political and ethical philosophers who, like Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, have turned in recent works towards aesthetics and visual art. Nancy’s challenging and inspiring writings on painting, film, photography, video and contemporary visual art have informed the work of scholars of visual culture and aesthetic theory as well as artists, filmmakers and curators.
Contributors
Adrienne Janus • Carrie Giunta • Chris Heppell • Christopher Watkin • Lorna Collins • Martin Crowley • Peter Banki • Phillip Warnell • Robert Luzar
About the authors:
Carrie Giunta is a freelance writer and visiting research fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Giunta’s writing has been published in Radical Philosophy, teleSUR English and The Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Books). Her recent publications include a chapter entitled “Community in Fragments: Reading Relation in the Fragments of Heraclitus” in the edited collection Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (Rowman & Littlefield).
Adrienne Janus is Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, where she works across the areas of theatre and performance studies, English and Comparative Literature.
Press Reviews:
Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures.– Marta Weychan, University of Aberdeen, Film-Philosophy
Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures.– Marta Weychan, University of Aberdeen, Film-Philosophy
At once mind-blowing and serious, the work of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy stands with the giants of our era. This volume offers a necessary aerial view of his thought on art, with astute essays and an excellent introduction that will orient inhabitants of the art and critical worlds we share and are shattered by.– Avital Ronell, New York University & European Graduate School, Switzerland
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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