The Gravity of Thought

by Jean-Luc Nancy

A meditation on the changing role of philosophy in a postmodernist context, the two essays gathered here-"The Forgetting of Philosophy" and "The Weight of a Thought"-represent some of the themes that have recently occupied Nancy's thought.

Genres: Philosophy

92 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works, including The Muses (1996), The Experience of Freedom (1993), The Birth to Presence (1993), Being Singular Plural (2000), The Speculative Remark (2001), and A Finite Thinking (2003).