The Thought Awaits Us All Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy

This volume shows how Nancy was able ‘to deconstruct’ the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existence, corporeality, and community, opening them up to the ‘disclosure’ of the outside, to the ‘exception’ of the world.  It draws on the work of the Italian philosopher, Roberto Esposito and includes a dialogue between Nancy and Esposito. The overcoming of the modern perspective is covered by Descartes and Hegel, who are analyzed in light of Nancy. 

This text proposes a deconstruction of the Western tradition in its philosophical, aesthetic, and political registers and conveys a new ontology that breaks with the categories of the One and the Multiple, the Universal and the Particular, in order to identify the relationship between the plural and the singular and understand what it means to be together, to be in common, to be in the world. It is suitable for scholars, researchers, and students of philosophy and comparative literature.

1 Deposition Starting From Descartes.- 2 Exposition Starting From Hegel.- 3 Ontological  Partition.- 4 Compearance.- 5 “What Is Missing The Poem Of Our Being Together”.- 6 The Restlessness Of The World.

Daniela Calabrò is Associate Professor in Metaphysics at the Università di Salerno. She’s the author of many books and articles and edited many volumes, such as: L’infanzia della filosofia. Saggio sulla filosofia dell’educazione di Maurice Merleau-Ponty (UTET, 2002); Di-spiegamenti. Soggetto, corpo e comu¬nità in Jean-Luc Nancy (Mimesis, 2006); Les détours d’une pensée vivante. Transitions et changements de paradigme dans la réflexion de Roberto Esposito (Mimesis France, 2012); L’ora meridiana. Il pensiero inoperoso di Jean-Luc Nancy tra ontologia, estetica e politica (Mimesis, 2012); Unlimit. Rethinking the Boundaries between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts, coedited with G. Bird, D. Giugliano, and with a Preface by J.-L. Nancy (Mimesis International, 2017); La tradizione dello Spirito. Eredità Hegeliane nel Novecento, co-edited with L. Scafoglio (Stamen, 2018), The Correspondence. Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mimesis International, 2018; Humanity.Tra paradigmi perduti e nuove traiettorie, coedited with D. Giugliano, R. Peluso, A.P. Ruoppo, L. Scafoglio, Inschibboleth, 2020. Since 2017 she has been the Scientific Director of “Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies”, edited by Mimesis, Italy.