The philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, a disciple of Jacques Derrida, died at the age of 81, AFP learned Tuesday, August 24 from his publisher.
The Galilée editions, which published it since 1973, have confirmed the information given by the daily newspaper,
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"
It was for Galileo not only an important writer, who has published over thirty titles at home, but also a publisher
," said the founder of this philosophical publisher Michel Delorme.
Jean-Luc Nancy has yet to publish an essay on October 21, "
Cruor
", on cruelty in our world.
Student of Paul Ricoeur
Born in Bordeaux, he spent most of his career at the University of Strasbourg, the city where he died on Monday, and where he arrived in 1968, after starting as a high school teacher in Colmar.
Member of the International College of Philosophy, he was a student of Paul Ricoeur at the Sorbonne, and fellow traveler of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).
His abundant body of work covers a multitude of subjects, but his main successes have been “
Corpus
” (1992) and “
Intruder
” (2010), in which he touched on his heart problems.
One of his last essays, “
A Too Human Virus
” (2020, Bayard) had the theme of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg until recently, “
Jean-Luc Nancy was a rare personality in the French university landscape, who truly represented an alliance between an academic career (...) and at the same time, a real commitment in life, with a very strong unity between his existential experience and his intellectual activity as a thinker,
”Anne Merker, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, told AFP. He had "
this very great open-mindedness to look towards experiences other than purely philosophical experience and in particular towards literary experience
" and "
a very great capacity to bring out all the potential of language
", added Anne Merker.