The Persistence of the Subject: Jean-Luc Nancy.

Discusses Jean-Luc Nancy's sense of the contemporary return of the subject in his 1979 book 'Ego Sum.' Question of the nature of the subject which writes, lives and experiences; Nancy's argument that the return of the subject in theoretical discourse is signalled most clearly in Lacanian psychoanal...

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Published in:Paragraph Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 125 - 142
Main Author: James, Ian
Format: Article
Published: Edinburgh University Press Mar2002
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Summary:Discusses Jean-Luc Nancy's sense of the contemporary return of the subject in his 1979 book 'Ego Sum.' Question of the nature of the subject which writes, lives and experiences; Nancy's argument that the return of the subject in theoretical discourse is signalled most clearly in Lacanian psychoanalysis; Account of Nancy's engagement with Rene Descartes in 'Ego Sum.'