Left in the Dark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aukje Van Rooden (0000-0001-6482-535X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-121 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-11557673 |
| OpenAlex | W4409305675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Nancy is predominantly a thinker of life in all its forms and expressions. For him, to be, to exist, is always a question of being alive in the most vivacious, intense, and restless way, that is, to be in a relentless relation of exchange with one's environment and with others. Apart from being a central theme in Nancy's work, this vivid relationality is also a distinctive feature of his mode of writing. Nancy's death therefore poses a fundamental challenge to his own thinking and writing. For how to relate oneself to a dead author? How to form a community with the dead? How to share the absence of life, of this specific life: how to share the death of Nancy? In this commemorative essay, Aukje van Rooden investigates these questions in an attempt to make sense of Nancy's passing
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |