The Leiden University Center for Continental Philosophy (LCCP), the University of Amsterdam’s Critical Cultural Theory Seminar (CCT) and Knooppunt Fenomenologie Gent welcome all interested persons to a memorial symposium on Jean-Luc Nancy’s work.
Jean-Luc Nancy met death definitively in August 2021. One imagines that he had come close to death before, notably at the time when he had to endure a heart transplantation. This personal experience had major philosophical consequences: it did not lead to somber meditations of the shortness of life, but on the contrary to another kind of finite thinking, where finitude is thought as function of the necessary plurality of bodies which are the sense of the world: finitude is the very sharing of finitude. The sense of the world is nothing else than the singular plurality of bodies.
The work of Jean-Luc Nancy radiates a rare joy of life, but it is also very sensitive to what he called the ‘immonde’, the un-worlding that manifests itself as the eco-technical misery that presses the world of bodies. He diagnosed the fundamental philosophical reasons of this un- worlding, but above all he sought philosophical tools to re-world existence. Many of these tools are rooted in the polysemy of "sense," that leads Nancy's work to sensitive and even sensual questions of art, to questions of the sense of the world and of religion, and of course to questions of the way in which philosophy makes sense, word by word, enunciation by enunciation.
Wishing to share the emotion of Jean-Luc Nancy's passing away, we want above all to share the experience of thinking finitude with the help of his unique, singular work. This is why we invite you to a symposium in which all aspects of Nancy's abundant work will be discussed and new openings will be explored.
The symposium will take place online. People interested in the symposium should register with the conference secretary Donovan Stewart: [d.a.stewart@phil.leidenuniv.nl] in order to get the link.
The program is on the symposium website:
https://asca.uva.nl/shared/subsites/amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research/en/events/events/2022/01/jean-luc-nancy.html
or
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/01/lccp-symposium-sharing-finitude---in-memoriam-jean-luc-nancy
Tuesday 11 January 2022: Nancy’s Pathways
14:00-14:15: Opening of Symposium by Susanna Lindberg
14:15-15:15:
Aukje van Rooden: ‘Eulogy / Jean-Luc Nancy In Memoriam’
Irving Goh, ‘A Melancholic Genius without Melancholy, or Shared Unshareability in Jean-Luc Nancy’
15 minutes break
15:30-16:30:
Ignaas Devisch: ‘Do we have anything to say?’
Frédéric Neyrat: ‘“Infinir”: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Situation of Contemporary Thought’
15 minutes break
16:45-17:45:
Esa Kirkkopelto: ‘Jean-Luc Nancy: Towards a Phenomenology of Participation’
Paul Willemarck:‘Insensitivity’
15 minutes break
18:00-19:00:
Boyan Manchev: ‘The Insurrected Thought, Jean-Luc Nancy’
Ian James:‘Prolegomena to a Manifesto of Open Community’
Wednesday 12 January 2022: Opening New Worlds with Nancy
14:00-15:00:
Susanna Lindberg: ‘‘On Splendid Splintered Being’
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback: ‘Being with the Without’
15 minutes break
15:15-16:15:
Artemy Magun: ‘Adoration, Glory, Offering: Recent Philosophies of Hymn’
Peter De Graeve: ‘Nancy. Having (Lost) Universality’
15 minutes break
16:30-17:30:
Georgios Tsagdis: ‘Drawing Life: Freedom and Form in Jean-Luc Nancy’‚
Nidesh Lawtoo: ‘Shared Voices: Nancy-Lacoue's Mimetic Methexis’
15 minutes break
17:45-18:45:
Martin Crowley: ‘Exscription as Ecopoetics’
Anne O'Byrne: ‘Nancy for a New Generation’
18:45-19:00: Closing Remarks