Corpus III by Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort - 9781531501112

Corpus IIICruor and Other Writings\nAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531501112, 978-1531501112\nSynopsis\nA beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe\n This landmark volume brings into English Jean-Luc Nancy's last completed work and concludes his remarkable philosophical reflections on the body, a project he began almost thirty years ago. Taking the body as an intersection of pulsing life and destructive cruelty on a global scale, Nancy's account becomes more vivid, more physical, than ever, even as it ventures into language that is as lyrical as it is profound. This vividness is manifest in blood: as it flows, in all its pulsing and forceful circulation, and as it spills, in the cruelty of existences confronted daily by countless destructions. This can be described as .