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• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…