The City in the Distance
Download or Read eBook The City in the Distance PDF written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jean-Luc Nancy |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2024-10-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781531508999 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1531508995 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The City in the Distance by : Jean-Luc Nancy
Book excerpt: Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses. Far from an abstract account, Nancy attends in the most concrete way possible to the workings of a city not typically taken as paradigmatic, Los Angeles. As Jean-Christophe Bailly suggests in his foreword, Nancy joins Walter Benjamin in thinking the city not from an external vantage point, but on its own terms.
