{"product_id":"expectation-jean-luc-nancy-9780823277599","title":"Expectation: Philosophy, Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues such questions as literature's claims to truth, the status of narrative, the relation of poetry and prose, and the unity of a book or of a text, and he addresses a number of major European writers, including Dante, Sterne, Rousseau, Hölderlin, Proust, Joyce, and Blanchot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe final section offers a number of impressive pieces by Nancy that completely merge his concerns for philosophy and literature and philosophy-as-literature. These include a lengthy parody of Valéry's \"La Jeune Parque,\" several original poems by Nancy, and a beautiful prose-poetic discourse on an installation by Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani that incorporates the Faust theme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening with a substantial Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté that elaborates Nancy's importance as a literary thinker, this book constitutes the most substantial statement to date by one of today's leading philosophers on a discipline that has been central to his work across his career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Luc Nancy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823277593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823277599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018","brand":"Jean-Luc Nancy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086981902591,"sku":"9780823277599","price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc2899a5-073f-4e2e-b1ee-87a0428bf6cc.jpg?v=1769097620","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/expectation-jean-luc-nancy-9780823277599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}