About this ebook
Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Ad?le van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue, ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism and from Spinoza, Hegel, andAugustine to the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller. Four additional essays are new to the American edition.
About the author
Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including The Disavowed Community; Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula; and, with Frederico Ferrari, Being Nude: The Skin of Images (all Fordham). Ad?le Van Reeth is the producer and host of France Culture Radio's daily program on philosophy. She also contributes to the program Le Cercle on Canal Plus Cin?ma and to Philosophie magazine. Charlotte Mandell has translated more than forty books and is the recipient of numerous awards.
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