Philosophical Chronicles
Philosophical Chronicles
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Franson Manjali
Copyright Date: 2008
Published by: Fordham University Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn
Pages: 84
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14brzpn
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Philosophical Chronicles
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In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher's rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again, is whether philosophy is conditioned by the world the philosopher inhabits, or whether it must remain unconditioned by that world.Nancy discusses: terror in relation to religion and capitalism; the relevance of philosophy to life (whether philosophy can be a form of life); the status of god in monotheism; the relevance of politicsas it is defined today; the Heidegger affairand its consequences for philosophy; war, especially in the context of the invasion of Iraq; the role of negativity in philosophical and cultural discourses; artand the variability of its meanings; the predominance of the metaphor of the sun. The essays can be read separately, but together they amount to the striking vision of a philosopher sensitive to the world of his times and attempting to open his own path within it.

eISBN: 978-0-8232-6908-2
Subjects: Philosophy
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-x)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn.2
  3. Translator’s Foreword
    Translator’s Foreword (pp. xi-xx)
    Franson Manjali
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn.3

    This book, comprising texts of monthly talks or “chronicles” presented over a period of eleven months on France Culture radio, connects up philosophy with several nodes of contemporary life. The chronicles of an old discipline—perhaps the oldest living discipline—cannot but relate the chronic problems and crises it faces in its very act of survival. Though philosophy’s very existence depends on its being unconditioned, in its course of development, philosophers tend to submit it to various conditionalities, including a cultural conditionality that is much in vogue today. However, sense of difficult philosophical expressions; the administration of the Maison des...

  4. Philosophical Chronicles
    Philosophical Chronicles (pp. 1-70)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn.4

    A chronicle of philosophy: What can this really mean? A chronicle is a rubric indicating something punctual and periodical, whose content has to do either with a particular specialization (gastronomy, gardening, etc.), or with a subjectivity (the world according to the mood of the chronicler). But philosophy, in whatever manner we envisage it, aspires to be removed from specialization as well as from subjectivity. From the beginning and in principle, it demands the universal and the objective. That is to say, it asks how the universal can be an object of thought and how any object, whatever it may be,...

  5. Notes
    Notes (pp. 71-72)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt14brzpn.5
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