{"product_id":"corpus-iii-cruor-and-other-writings-9781531501129","title":"Corpus III: Cruor and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003esanguis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ecruor\u003c\/i\u003e, the two Latin words for blood's intermingled but distinct aspects. This distinction allows Nancy to highlight an almost mystical sense of the body (yet one that remains soberly on this side of its manifest insistence), alongside the cruelty that pervades our world--a world whose very existence is threatened by its reduction to mere objects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe exceptional writings brought together in \u003ci\u003eCorpus III\u003c\/i\u003e comprise a masterful work of philosophy that marries rigorous erudition--on Freud, Nietzsche, and others--with rich poetic language and an actual poem. Nancy's thought opens the body onto its own unaccountable origins, its plural singularities, its enmeshed instantiations, and its excessive irreducibles, which are also the elusive excesses of language. Whereas in earlier texts Nancy has referred to this excess as poetry, here he performs it in the form of a poem, in the extraordinary hymn entitled \u003ci\u003eStoma\u003c\/i\u003e. While the publication of a poem by Nancy is a notable event, equally noteworthy is a remarkable essay entitled \"Scandalous Death,\" in which Nancy meditated on a subject that was to come to him too soon after. Above all, the book is crucial for bringing into English \u003ci\u003eCruor\u003c\/i\u003e, the very last book Nancy completed before his death, an evocative meditation offered by a great thinker on the complex conditions of his own--and our--singular survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14979263\"\u003eJean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531501129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531501125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI027000\"\u003eMovements | Deconstruction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PSY\"\u003ePsychology\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PSY026000\"\u003eMovements | Psychoanalysis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE017000\"\u003eEuropean | French\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (\u003c\/b\u003e1940-2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Singular Plural\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ground of the Image\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCorpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Disavowed Community\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSexistence\u003c\/i\u003e. His \"The Intruder\" was adapted into a film by Claire Denis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Fort (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJeff Fort\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, and the translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44538062864621,"sku":"9781531501129","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_bb082c12-7245-4659-85d1-2470012c9c25.jpg?v=1701450275","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/corpus-iii-cruor-and-other-writings-9781531501129","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}