The Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy PAPERBACK 9780823231188

Fordham University Press

The Fall of Sleep\nby Jean-Luc Nancy\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jean-Luc Nancy\nTitle: The Fall of Sleep\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary essays\nPublisher: Fordham University Press\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9780823231188\nISBN-10: 0823231186\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhat does it mean to 'fall' asleep? Might there exist something like a 'reason' of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking 'self' that distinguishes 'I' from 'you' and from the world? This book attempts to answer these questions.\n\nWhat does it mean to 'fall' asleep? Might there exist something like a 'reason' of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself,.