The Meaning of Sense

Over the years, sense has become Jean-Luc Nancy's master word: it pops up in almost every statement. Since the publication of The Sense of the World, Nancy has increasingly used sense to point to, what he sees as, the necessity to reinvent our ontological vocabulary in order to understand who we are and how we coexist. Sense is Nancy's key to open the door to the question of being. He pushes his ontological inquiry up to a point where he can claim that being itself is given to us as sense. The question we want to tackle in this chapter, is how we are to understand the implications and effects of this crucial Nancean proposition for our everyday praxis in times of globalization. For indeed, and as we will show, if Nancy's analysis of the existential condition of sense means something, it is a fundamental interpellation of our daily being-in-the-world.

ISBN:978-1-910761-00-7

Jaar van publicatie:2015

Trefwoorden:jean-luc nancy, ontology, deconstruction, philosophy