Download or read book Sexistence written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation of an originary trouble at the limits of language that divides being and opens the world. Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that resonates with contemporary research on gender and biopolitics. Without attempting to be comprehensive, the book ranges from the ancient world through psychoanalysis to discover the turbulence of the drive at the heart of existence.

Download or read book The Deconstruction of Sex written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms and centrality to our being-in-the-world, sex lacks a clearly defined essence. At the same time, they point to the potentiality of literature to inscribe the senses of sex. In so doing, Nancy and Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others through sex in more sensitive, respectful, and humble ways without bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.

Download or read book Ontologies of Sex Philosophy in Sexual Politics written by Zeynep Direk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies of Sex: Philosophy in Sexual Politics considers the ontological presuppositions of feminist theories of sexual difference and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological accounts of erotic experience. Erotic relation is a corporeal, intimate, and affective encounter with the other in which the subjects have the possibility of being revealed to themselves and to each other in who they are. In eroticism, law paradoxes, death, abjection, subjectivity, sovereignty, commitment, engagement, freedom are at stake. By inquiring into various types of analyzes of sexual oppression and different accounts of ethics of Eros, this book invites the reader to deepen their existential reflection on the significance of Eros for human life in general, and for political subjectivity in particular.

Download or read book Sense and Singularity written by Georges Van Den Abbeele and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical project as an inquiry into the limits or finitude of philosophy itself, where it is interrupted, and as a practice of critical intervention where philosophy serves to interrupt otherwise unquestioned ways of thinking. Nancy’s interruption of philosophy, Van Den Abbeele argues, reveals the limits of what philosophy is and what it can do, its apocalyptic end and its endless renewal, its Sisyphean interruption between the bounds of infinitely replicating sense and the conceptual vanishing point that is singularity. In examinations of Nancy’s foundational rereading of Descartes's cogito as iterative, his formal experimentations with the genres of philosophical writing, the account of “retreat” in understanding the political, and the interruptive play of sense and singularity in writings on the body, sexuality, and aesthetics, Van Den Abbeele offers a fresh account of one of our major thinkers as well as a provocative inquiry into what philosophy can do.

Download or read book Sexistence written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation of an originary trouble at the limits of language that divides being and opens the world. Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that resonates with contemporary research on gender and biopolitics. Without attempting to be comprehensive, the book ranges from the ancient world through psychoanalysis to discover the turbulence of the drive at the heart of existence.

Download or read book The Pulse of Sense written by Marie Chabbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy’s thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity. In doing so, the volume seeks to remind readers that Nancy’s sens has many meanings in French: aside from those that easily carry over into English, i.e., everything to do with "meaning" and "the senses"; it also includes the "way" they are "conducted," the "direction" they take, the "thrust" or "pulse" in which the circulation of sense exists. Faithful to this plural understanding of sens, the writings collected here aim to join Jean-Luc Nancy in the process of "making-sense" that animates his thinking, rather than to deliver a definitive summary of his position on any given issue. They are conceived of as notes "along the way," documenting "encounters" as moments of "(re)direction" and recording the "pulse" of sense that animates them. In that spirit, Nancy himself has provided each contribution with an "echo" in which he, in turn, responds to each author and thereby continues their mutual encounter. Aside from these echoes, this volume includes an original essay in which Nancy reflects upon the international trajectory of his thinking; a trajectory that is to be and undoubtedly will be continued, in many different directions, across and around the world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Download or read book Some amazing scientific research papers of an Indian spiritual leader Maharshi MahaManas written by Sumeru Ray (Maharshi MahaManas) and published by MahaManan. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great doctrine of this time called "MahaVad" (Mahaism) written by Sumeru Ray alias Maharshi MahaManas, contains a number of scientific theories and scientific research articles with evidences. Sumeru Ray alias Maharshi MahaManas who has been working tirelessly almost all his life for the real human development and peace. Here is the essence of Maharshi MahaManas's logic and science based modern doctrine called 'MahaVad': "The root cause of most man-made problems, suffering and misery is lack of sufficient knowledge and consciousness and mental illness. Blind faith, blind devotion, superstition and violence-hatred-terrorism have all arisen from that." "Real human development and peace can only be achieved if proper mind development education and training are introduced all over the world. And if real human development takes place, then most of the human-centered problems will be solved." His revolutionary doctrine of human development called "MahaVad" contains many scientific theories and scientific articles with evidence. Some of those scientific articles have been published in various international science journals as scientific research papers in the last part of 2021. And they have been admired by wise people. Those research papers were compiled and published as a book for the people seeking knowledge. Thanks. ~ Editor

Download or read book The Scientific Thoughts of a Spiritual Scientist written by Maharshi MahaManas and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: Many people may disdain when they hear the name of spiritual science. The spirituality of MahaManas is rational/ reasonable spirituality, free from superstition ~ blind-faith. This spirituality is not conventional religious spirituality. The essence of true spirituality is to know oneself, to know this 'I'. In order to know oneself or the 'I' properly, one has to know the universe of which this 'I' is a part, that is, the cosmic order. You have to know the truth of creation, then you will be able to know the mystery of the creation of this 'I'. The main goal of spirituality is to find the root and root cause of creation along the path of reasoning with a free mind. As you continue on this path, the cosmic mysteries will gradually unfold to you. There is no difference between science. About the Author: Maharshi MahaManas alias Sumeru Ray. He is a great-minded wise sage of the modern age, a multi-talented creator, researcher, writer, philosopher, awakener, educator, multifaceted free thinker and he is self-dedicated to human development. He is the pioneer of reasonable spirituality and the creator of the great doctrine– ‘MahaVad’, and the founder of ‘MahaDharma’ –the religion of free-thinkers for true self-development & human development. Maharshi is well experienced physician of Alternative Medicines, he is a very successful practitioner and researcher in the field of Alternative Medicines and Human Development. MahaManas is the inventor of the new system of medicine~ MPathy... He is a knowledge worshipper, educated in the open school of the world! Self-conscious and self-aware man of vast experience with art sense, creative power, computer knowledge, new ideas. He is a good mentor. He is an author – philosopher –researcher. Maharshi is the teacher of true self development Education 'MahaManan' and specialist in mental problems. Most important identity of MahaManas, –he is a humanitarian. His all efforts are – for human welfare. He is a social reformer. He has knowledge in fine arts, literature, Yoga, meditation, art of healing, self-development program, lyric, story, screenplay writing, music composing and film making, news paper and periodicals editing, and reasonable spirituality. To know more, go through Google search= Sumeru Ray / Maharshi MahaManas

Download or read book MahaDharma written by Maharshi MahaManas and published by MahaManan. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As per the need of the times, to create a new age free from blind-faith and superstitions and to bring radical auspicious changes in human life, a great revolutionary religion called 'MahaDharma' emerged. It should be welcomed ~ for our own good. The only way to real human development and world peace is this simple path of self-development. Those interested to know in detail, search Google. Sponsors, organizers and members welcome.

Download or read book MahaVad Mahaism The greatest doctrine of the time for real human development and world peace written by Maharshi MahaManas (Sumeru Ray) and published by MahaManan. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary doctrine and philosophy of Maharshi MahaManas which has revealed many truths of human life and cosmic life! The various problems of human life and its root causes and solutions have been revealed through the wisdom words of the greatest sage of this time. Maharshi MahaManas alias Sumeru Ray who has been working tirelessly almost all his life for the real human development. Here is the essence of Maharshi MahaManas's logic and science based greatest revolutionary doctrine called 'MahaVad': "The root cause of most man-made problems, suffering and misery is lack of sufficient knowledge and consciousness and mental illness. Blind faith, blind devotion, superstition and violence-hatred-terrorism have all arisen from that." "Real human development and peace can only be achieved if proper mind development education and training are introduced all over the world. And if real human development takes place, then most of the human-centered problems will be solved." For this purpose, he has developed an excellent mind-development education system called 'MahaManan'. He also developed a new religion called 'MahaDharma' for real human development and world peace based on 'MahaVad' and 'MahaManan'. The greatest sage MahaManas has enlightened in the light of his own wisdom on many unresolved issues of human life including human development, mind development education system, modern psychology based on rational spirituality, and Maha cosmology, etc.

Download or read book MahaPathy written by Sumeru Ray and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MahaPathy (briefly MPathy) This New Century has presented us a new system of medicine with a new medical science. 'MahaPathy' (briefly-- MPathy) is a Super-excellent System of Alternative Medicine. It is very effective system for Complete Treatment. When current systems of medicines are unable to cure ---curability of MahaPathy has been proved astonishingly in suchlike many cases. About the Author: Maharshi MahaManas alias Sumeru Ray. He is a great-minded wise sage of the modern age, a multi-talented creator, researcher, writer, philosopher, awakener, educator, multifaceted free thinker and he is self-dedicated to human development. He is the pioneer of reasonable spirituality and the creator of the great doctrine– ‘MahaVad’, and the founder of ‘MahaDharma’ –the religion of free-thinkers for true self-development & human development. Maharshi is well experienced physician of Alternative Medicines, he is a very successful practitioner and researcher in the field of Alternative Medicines and Human Development. MahaManas is the inventor of the new system of medicine~ MPathy... He is a knowledge worshipper, educated in the open school of the world! Self-conscious and self-aware man of vast experience with art sense, creative power, computer knowledge, new ideas. He is a good mentor. He is an author – philosopher –researcher. Maharshi is the teacher of true self development Education 'MahaManan' and specialist in mental problems. Most important identity of MahaManas, –he is a humanitarian. His all efforts are – for human welfare. He is a social reformer. He has knowledge in fine arts, literature, Yoga, meditation, art of healing, self-development program, lyric, story, screenplay writing, music composing and film making, news paper and periodicals editing, and reasonable spirituality. To know more, go through Google search= Sumeru Ray / Maharshi MahaManas

Download or read book MahaDharma the religion of human liberation from the darkness of ignorance written by Maharshi MahaManas (Sumeru Ray) and published by MahaManan. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Manav Dharma' that is Basic natural Religion of human beings or Humanism. That religion is practiced spontaneously without any effort for mind-development and human development. The surest way to a better life. 'MahaDharma' is the embodiment of this abstract natural human religion~ 'Manav Dharma'. MahaDharma has emerged to bring people back to their normal religion for real human development and peace. ​Summary: “Because you have a conscious mind~ you are human. But your (conscious) mind is not yet developed enough. To become a well-developed human being, you need to develop this mind. And that is your primary religion." ​"You were born as a human being, so the first and foremost goal of your life is to become a full-fledged human being. With the goal of life: to know yourself and this worldly system, always try to be alert. Be diligent to make yourself a real and all-round developed human being.” ​"Whether you belong to a conventional religion by birth or intention, your first identity is that you are a human being. As a human being, your main and fundamental religion is natural human religion (ManavDharma). And this normal human religion is the MahaDharma. The main thing is to develop the human mind with overall well-being.” ​"We are here on an educational journey. Gaining high to higher consciousness is the underlying purpose of human life. Here, the more we become conscious through knowledge-experience, the more we will benefit. From a spiritual point of view, nothing will go with us when we leave here, except the consciousness." First of all we have to understand - what this 'MahaDharma' really is 'MahaDharma' is natural human religion, our basic religion - the religion of building people. This religion is not comparable to any other conventional religion. God and faith are not the foundation of this religion. It is based on logic and spiritual science (reasonable spirituality). MahaDharma is completely different from the conventional religions.

Download or read book The only scientific way to real human development and world peace written by Maharshi MahaManas (Sumeru Ray) and published by MahaManan. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MahaManan: The only scientific way to real human development and world peace! Mind-developing education is the only scientific way to real human development. Real human development and world-peace can only be achieved if proper mind-developmental education and training are introduced all over the world. In this dire critical condition of the juncture of the age, to remove the sufferings of the people, and to establish real human development and world peace, the great Indian sage~ Maharishi MahaManas has appeared as the need of the time. Many consider him to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Pure spiritual renaissance is about to take place through an epoch-making revolutionary movement on the path indicated by him. If you are willing to join the great revolutionary movement to create a conscious-illuminated new age freed from the darkness of ignorance and blind-faith, you are welcome. Sumeru Ray alias Maharshi MahaManas who has been working tirelessly almost all his life for real human development. Here is the essence of Maharshi MahaManas's logic and science based modern doctrine called 'MahaVad': "The root cause of most man-made problems, suffering and misery is lack of sufficient knowledge and consciousness and mental illness. Blind faith, blind devotion, superstition and violence-hatred-terrorism have all arisen from that." "Real human development and world peace can only be achieved if proper mind development education and training are introduced all over the world. And if real human development takes place, then most of the human-centered problems will be solved." True Spiritual Revolution (not so-called religious spirituality) is the only way to real Human Development and World Peace. And Real human development and world peace can be achieved only through mind-developing education. ~Maharshi MahaManas For this purpose, after about fifty years of research and effort, Maharshi MahaManas has developed an excellent mind-development education system called 'MahaManan'. If you are interested to know more about this, please do a Google search: Maharshi MahaManas, MahaManan, Sumeru Ray Mind-developing education can be imparted in two ways. The first is through institutional education and the second is through humanistic religious education.

Download or read book Noli Me Tangere written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a form of address: Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.There is no message without there first being-or, more subtly, without there also being in the message itself-an address to a capacity or an aptitude for listening. This is not an exhortation of the kind Pay attention!Rather, it is a warning: if you do not understand, the message will go away.The scene in the Gospel of John in which the newly risen Christ enjoins the Magdalene, Noli me tangere,a key moment in the general parable made up of his life, is a particularly good example of this sudden appearance in which a vanishing plays itself out. Resurrected, he speaks, makes an appeal, and leaves.Do not touch me.Beyond the Christ story, this everyday phrase says something important about touching in general. It points to the place where touching must not touch in order to carry out its touch (its art, its tact, its grace). The title essay of this volume is both a contribution to Nancy's project of a deconstruction of Christianityand an exemplum of his remarkable writings on art, in analyses of Noli me tangerepaintings by such painters as Rembrandt, Drer, Titian, Pontormo, Bronzino, and Correggio. It is also in tacit dialogue with Jacques Derrida's monumental tribute to Nancy's work in Le toucher-Jean-Luc Nancy.For the English-language edition, Nancy has added an unpublished essay on the Magdalene and the English translation of In Heaven and on the Earth,a remarkable lecture he gave in a series designed to address children between six and twelve years of age. Closely aligned with his entire project of the deconstruction of Christianity,'this lecture may give the most accesible account of his ideas about God.

Download or read book The Disavowed Community written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot’s text, Nancy’s new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot’s thinking, from Bataille’s “community of lovers” to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.

Download or read book The Pleasure in Drawing written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form—of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings, suspensions, and permanent interruptions. Recalling that drawing and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that drawing designates a design that remains without project, plan, or intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation), which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic,filmic, choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic senses. If drawing is not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension specific to itself. Rather, drawing allows the pleasure in and of drawing, the gesture of a desire that remains in excess of all knowledge, to come to appearance. Situating drawing in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around questions concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force. Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of “sketchbooks” on drawing, composed of a broad range of quotations on art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.

Download or read book The Ground of the Image written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as “spectacle” and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces. What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin? In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies. In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time.