Multiple Arts: The Muses II

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This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his own. With theoretical rigor, Nancy elaborates on the intrinsic multiplicity of art as a concept of "making," and outlines the tensions inherent in the faire, the "making" that characterizes the very process of production and thereby the structure of poetry in all its forms. Nancy shows that this multiplication that belongs to the notion of art makes every single work communicate with every other, all material in the artwork appeal to some other material, and art the singular plural of a praxis of the finite imparting of an infinity which is actually there in every utterance. In the collection, Nancy engages with the work of, among others, Francois Martin, Maurice Blanchot, and On Kawara.

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements i @toc1:Part I "Literature" @toc2:Making Poetry 0 Taking Account of Poetry 00 Around the Notion of Literary Communism 00 He Says 00 Vox Clamans in Deserto 000 Paean For Aphrodite 000 Les Iris 000 On Writing 000 Roger Laporte: The Page 000 In Blanchot's Company 000 On Blanchot 000 Deguy l'an neuf! 000 The Necessity of Sense 000 Ja, Bes 000 Robert Antelme's Two "Phrases" 000 @toc1:Part II "Art" @toc2:Georges 000 Catalogue 000 Interviews 000 Res Extensa 000 Lux Lumen Splendor 000 Held, Held Back 000 A Blank for a Title 000 The Technique of the Present 000 The Soun-Gui Experience 000 The Look of the Portrait 000 @toc4:References 000

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Jean-Luc Nancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works.

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"Multiple Arts is filled with inexplicit connections, surprises, and openings - a most notable contribution." - Henry Sussman, SUNY, Buffalo "These essays are a welcome contribution to the body of Nancy's work that now exists in English. They demonstrate with clarity and rigor the manner in which, for Nancy, the multipplicity of the arts never ceases to touch on, or to expose, the multiplicity of finite worldy existence." - Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques

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