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Gert-Jan van der Heiden: Thinking Hermeneutics with Nancy
Thinking Hermeneutics with Nancy
(p. 93 – 104)

Gert-Jan van der Heiden

Thinking Hermeneutics with Nancy

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This contribution examines the importance of Nancy’s rethinking of the sense and meaning of hermeneutics, departing from his early text Le partage des voix. Beginning with an inquiry into how the notion of partage impacts the understanding of dialogue, the author continues to explore, with Nancy, the importance of interpretation as a way of bringing something into circulation and thus, of communicating. Subsequently, the author considers to what extent Nancy’s explication of hermeneutics leaves room to speak of the subject matter—Sache—of interpretation and how it deals with the ordeal of the foreign as experienced in the act of translating, which is a particular form of interpretation.

  • ethics
  • deconstruction
  • post-structuralism
  • community
  • democracy

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Gert-Jan van der Heiden

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement (2010), Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event, and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy (2014), and The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony (2020) and he co-edited Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought (2017), Continental Perspectives on Community: Human Coexistence from Unity to Plurality (2020), and The Gadamerian Mind (2022).
Susanna Lindberg (ed.), Artemy Magun (ed.), ...: Thinking With—Jean-Luc Nancy

With this book, we would like to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world. Now that he has passed away, it is not enough for us to simply reflect on his work: we would like to stay true to the stance to which his thought invites us, in a pluralistic and communal way. Jean-Luc Nancy takes up the old philosophical question of truth as a praxis of a with — understanding truth without any given measure or comparison as an articulation of a with. It is a thinking responsible for the world from within the world, a language that seeks to respond to the ongoing mutation of our civilization.

 

With contributions by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Rodolphe Burger, Marcia Sá Calvacante Schuback, Marcus Coelen, Alexander García Düttmann, Juan-Manuel Garrido, Martta Heikkilä, Erich Hörl, Valentin Husson, Sandrine Israel-Jost, Ian James, Apostolos Lampropoulos, Nidesh Lawtoo, Jérôme Lèbre, Susanna Lindberg, Michael Marder, Artemy Magun, Boyan Manchev, Dieter Mersch, Hélène Nancy, Jean-Luc Nancy, Aïcha Liviana Messina, Ginette Michaud, Helen Petrovsky, Jacob Rogozinski, Philipp Stoellger, Peter Szendy, Georgios Tsagdis, Marita Tatari, Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Aukje van Rooden.

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