{"product_id":"sense-and-singularity-jean-luc-nancy-and-the-interruption-of-philosophy-9781531503307","title":"Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. \u003ci\u003eSense and Singularity \u003c\/i\u003eelaborates Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical project as an inquiry into the limits or finitude of philosophy itself, where it is interrupted, and as a practice of critical intervention where philosophy serves to interrupt otherwise unquestioned ways of thinking. Nancy's interruption of philosophy, Van Den Abbeele argues, reveals the limits of what philosophy is and what it can do, its apocalyptic end and its endless renewal, its Sisyphean interruption between the bounds of infinitely replicating sense and the conceptual vanishing point that is singularity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn examinations of Nancy's foundational rereading of Descartes's \u003ci\u003ecogito \u003c\/i\u003eas iterative, his formal experimentations with the genres of philosophical writing, the account of \"retreat\" in understanding the political, and the interruptive play of sense and singularity in writings on the body, sexuality, and aesthetics, Van Den Abbeele offers a fresh account of one of our major thinkers as well as a provocative inquiry into what philosophy can do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Van Den Abbeele\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau\u003c\/i\u003e, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487390372114,"sku":"9781531503307","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63790e2e-b131-487b-8f46-a0a473eccfae.jpg?v=1730437986","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sense-and-singularity-jean-luc-nancy-and-the-interruption-of-philosophy-9781531503307","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}