Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous
practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body …

What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work
of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts …

With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of
a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its …

Under the influence of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, the theme of absolute
alterity still dominates the thinking of the ethical in Continental philosophy. This article …

Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can
be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers—Emmanuel Levinas …

This article examines the exchange between Jean‐Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot around
the question of community. It argues that Nancy from the early 1980s onwards offers an …

The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc Nanc, a key figure in the contemporary
intellectual landscape. This dictionary considers the full scope of his writing and will provide …

" Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) was a professor of philosophy, and also a poet, a
translator and a playwright. His life and work were dedicated to the philosophical and …

A comparison of the notions of the imagined community (Benedict Anderson) and the
inoperative community (Jean-Luc Nancy) reveals how Anderson's and Nancy's very different …

Similarly, and perhaps more evidently, Nancy and Blanchot can both be read through the
concepts of the ethical that underpin their communities. Recent writing on Nancy and …