Noli Me Tangere On the Raising of the Body |
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| Author:
| Nancy, Jean-Luc |
| Translator:
| Clift, Sarah
Brault, Pascale-Anne
Naas, Michael |
| Series title: | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-2890-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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"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 Christianity" and an exemplum of his remarkable writings on art, offering analyses of "Noli me tangere" paintings by such painters as Rembrandt,...
More Description"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 Christianity" and an exemplum of his remarkable writings on art, offering analyses of "Noli me tangere" paintings by such painters as Rembrandt, D#65533;rer, 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For the English-language edition, Jean-Nancy has added an unpublished essay on the Magdalene and the English translation of "In Heaven and on the Earth," a remarkable lecture he gave in a series designed to address children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 accessible account of his ideas about God.