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• *Corpus corporum* (Nancy)

  Latin: "corpus of corpora"; literally "body of bodies" but operatively "a collection of collections." Nancy's name (Corpus 155) for the body without organic-functional unity — zoned, acephalic and aphallic, "discontinuous, fragmentary, par…

• *Mêlée* (Nancy)

  Nancy's signature term for the event of a knot, an entanglement that is also a disentanglement. Distinct from mixture (which forms a new homogeneous compound out of two formerly distinct elements). The mêlée preserves the irreducible separ…

• *Rien* (Nancy)

  Nancy's philosophical use of French rien — etymologically from Latin rem (accusative of res, "thing"), via Old French where rien meant "something" rather than "nothing." For Nancy, le rien names the thing tending toward its pure being-a-th…

• *Seinsverlassenheit* / Abandonment of Being

  Heidegger's name for the abandonment of Being — a key motif of his later thought (esp. Contributions to Philosophy and the Letter on Humanism). Nancy retranslates it (délaissement de l'être) and gives it a double sense: (a) Being is left b…

• *Unum quid* (Descartes)

  Latin: "one and the same thing"; "a certain something one." Descartes's name in the Sixth Meditation (AT VII 81 — the French version has "une même chose" / "un seul tout," AT IXa 12, 64) for the substantial union of the soul and the body —…

• Allonomy (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the constitutive otherness-of-self that is more originary than any autonomy. From Greek allos (other) + nomos (law): "his own law is other than himself" (Fragile Skin II §3 a). The diagnostic operates at three registers: (…

• Cartesian-Sartrian Ontology of the Object

  Morin's diagnostic name (recurring across Part II of her 2022 monograph) for the ontology — common to Descartes and Sartre — that both MP's late ontology and Nancy's materialism work against. Its features: (a) objects are strictly delimite…

• Coexistence

  Merleau-Ponty's term in Phenomenology of Perception for the structural togetherness of bodies, points, sensations, and selves that is not built up from prior atomic units but is presupposed in the unity of any experience. Coexistence names…

• Cory Stockwell

  Translator of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Fragile Skin of the World (Polity, 2021), from the French La Peau fragile du monde (Galilée, 2020). The translator's notes in this volume are philosophically load-bearing — they unpack lexical-conceptual…

• Creation *ex nihilo* (Materialist, Nancy)

  Nancy's redeployment of the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo as a materialist doctrine. It does not mean that the world is produced out of some pre-existing nothing by a powerful artisan-God; rather, it means the world has no presu…

• Dehiscence

  Merleau-Ponty's technical term, borrowed from botany (the splitting of a seed pod or anther), for the body's "splitting in two" by which it opens itself to itself and to the world. "A sort of dehiscence opens my body in two, and... between…

• Exscription

  Nancy's neologism (ex-scription, l'exscrit) for the writing-out of the body that exceeds inscription — the moment in writing where what is written exceeds writing itself, where sense exscribes the body that writing claims to inscribe. The…

• Fragile Skin of the World

  The title-figure of Nancy's last book (The Fragile Skin of the World, 2020/2021). The world is neither animal (Stoic immanent finality) nor machine (Enlightenment external causality) but us; it has no skin of its own and is "the factorial…

• Freedom of the Stone (Nancy)

  Nancy's claim — anchored at the end-fragment of The Experience of Freedom (EF 158–60) — that freedom extends not only to all living beings but also to the stone. The claim is intelligible only after a radical de-subjectivisation of freedom…

• Haptico-Transcendental Reduction

  Derrida's diagnostic name (in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy §13) for the risk — visible most clearly in Nancy's own Corpus and Une pensée finie — of reducing sense to touch as the transcendental of all sense. The Nancean formula "Sense IS tou…

• Inorganic Body of Sense (Nancy)

  Nancy's name (Sense of the World 61–2) for the totality of material bodies articulated through their spacings, mutual exposures, and weighings — without organic unity or functional whole. "There are only material bodies, then, and they mak…

• Investment as Civilizational Principle (Nancy)

  Nancy's late diagnosis of the Western civilizational sequence — Roman enterprise → Christian transfer-and-galvanization → bourgeois investment → present automation — as the systematic development of a single principle: investment. From Lat…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Jean-Christophe Bailly

  French writer, philosopher, poet, and essayist (b. 1949). Author of works on poetry, art, geography, animals, and time, often at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Close interlocutor of Nancy; co-editor (with Nancy) of La Compa…

• Juan Manuel Garrido

  Chilean philosopher of science and technology, working at the intersection of philosophy of biology, phenomenology of life, and political theory of techno-science. Linked to the Granel circle (Granel was his teacher) and the late-Nancean o…

• Limit / Edge / Shore (Nancy)

  The closing analytic triad in Fragile Skin Ch VIII ("Taking on Board"), Nancy's master late-apparatus for thinking singular finitude in the closure of the West: limit (limite), edge (bord), shore (rive). Each names a distinct register of t…

• Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology Marie-Eve Morin, 2022

  Author(s): Marie-Eve Morin · Year: 2022 · Type: book

• On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy Jacques Derrida, 2005

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2005 (orig. Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy, Galilée 2000; v1 essay "Le toucher: Touch/To Touch Him" in Paragraph 16:2, 1993, trans. Peggy Kamuf) · Type: book

• Partage (Nancy)

  Nancy's untranslatable French term partage — simultaneously sharing out, apportioning, parting, partitioning, partaking — names the structure of "participation as much as irreducible partition" (Nancy, glossed by Derrida in On Touching—Jea…

• Se toucher toi (To Self-Touch You)

  Nancy's grammatical-philosophical figure (from Corpus p. 36) for the constitutive failure of pure self-touch — and one of Derrida's master-concepts in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (Part III, §§12–13). The French phrase se toucher toi — "to s…

• Singular-Plural (Nancy)

  Nancy's lifelong concept, named in his 1996 book Être singulier pluriel (Being Singular Plural) and re-deployed in late synthesis in Fragile Skin of the World VIII: the structural co-implication of singular and plural at the ontological le…

• Syncope (Nancy)

  Nancy's figure (developed across Le discours de la syncope: Logodaedalus (1976), Ego sum (1979), Corpus (1992), Une pensée finie (1990)) for the interruption-at-the-heart-of-contact — the rhythmic break, the cut, the gap, the diastolic/sys…

• Techject / Ecotechnics (Nancy)

  Nancy's late philosophy-of-technology operates with two distinct-but-coordinated terms: techject (II §3 e raw 559) — neither object nor subject, the agent of intrinsically-technical relations — and ecotechnics (II §3 d raw 549) — the regim…

• Technē of Bodies

  Nancy's phrase (from Corpus and L'intrus, both 2000) for the technical-prosthetic-supplementary structure of any body — the technē (Greek technē: art, craft, skill, technics) that constitutes the body rather than supervening upon it. The p…

• The Fragile Skin of the World Jean-Luc Nancy, 2021

  Author(s): Jean-Luc Nancy · Year: 2021 (French 2020) · Type: book

• Time-to-Come / À-venir (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the temporal mode of the time-to-come, distinct from future-as-calculable-projection. From Fragile Skin I §1: "The to-come (to write it in this way) . . . would be the pre-sence of the present, that which does not yet take…

• Vanishing Ontology (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the late-period ontological formulation in which Being is no prior or ultimate given but a sending or referral — being-as-being-toward. Locus classicus: Fragile Skin II §3 e (raw 573): "Ontology vanishes here — or makes it…

• Weight of Thought (Nancy)

  Nancy's name (in The Gravity of Thought and "The Heart of Things") for the structural fact that thought is itself a material event: thought weighs (active sense — ascertains weight, ponders) because it has weight (passive sense — exerts pr…

• Whateverness / *quelconque* (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the thing as some thing — quelque chose, n'importe quoi, une chose quelconque: a "certain something" that is both conceptually indeterminate (lacks essential determinations) and materially concrete (this tree, this stone).…

• Écart

  French for gap, divergence, spread, deviation, or deflection. Lingis's translator's footnote at V&I Ch 1, footnote 4: "Écart. This recurrent term will have to be rendered variously by 'divergence,' 'spread,' 'deviation,' 'separation.'" In…