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*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…
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*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…
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Andrew Inkpin
Philosopher at the University of Melbourne working at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of language, and Wittgensteinian community-of-practice analyses. Author of "Merleau-Ponty on painting, sedimentation, and the cultural worl…
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Conquering Language (langage conquérant)
Merleau-Ponty's name for speech that sets up a new signification within a "language machine [machine de langage] / apparatus [un appareil]" built from old signs — an apparatus that "sometimes gives more and sometimes less than what one put…
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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…
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Imposture (three-fold, MP's reading of Valéry)
Merleau-Ponty's name (drawn from Valéry but systematized) for the three constitutive deceptions of literary writing diagnosed in lectures 4–5 of Investigations into the Literary Use of Language (1953): (1) the writer is mastered by what hi…
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Investigations into the Literary Use of Language
Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty; translated with introduction and notes by Bryan Smyth Year: 1953 (course delivered, January 19 – April 22); 2013 (French publication, ed. Zaccarello & Saint Aubert, Métis Presses); 2026 (English translatio…
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Linguisticality (Sprachlichkeit)
In Part Three of Truth and Method, Gadamer makes the ontological turn to language: understanding is linguistic through and through (Sprachlichkeit). Language is "the medium of hermeneutic experience" — not a neutral instrument carrying pre…
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…
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Saussurean Diacriticality
The thesis Merleau-Ponty draws from Saussure — that signs are "negative, diacritical, conventional" and that "in operating on each other they constitute a structure that is homologous to that of the signified" — used at the 1953 Collège co…
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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…
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Stendhal (Henri Beyle)
French novelist (1783–1842), born Henri-Marie Beyle in Grenoble; principal pseudonym "Stendhal" (after the German town Stendal); reputed to have used over 200 pseudonyms (César Bombet, Jules de Saint-Bertrand, etc.). Author of Le Rouge et…
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Truth and Method
Author(s): Hans-Georg Gadamer · Year: 1960 (German; English trans. rev. Weinsheimer & Marshall) · Type: book
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Vincent Descombes
French philosopher (b. 1943) working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and social philosophy. Major works include L'inconscient malgré lui (1977), Grammaire d'objets en tous genres (1983), Les institutions du sens (The Institu…
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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).…