Jean-Luc Nancy Quotes
Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher whose work extended the heritage of Heidegger and Derrida into an original thinking of community, the body, and shared existence. After teaching for decades at the University of Strasbourg, he produced a long series of works including The Inoperative Community, Being Singular Plural, Corpus, and the two-volume Deconstruction of Christianity, in which co-existence rather than the lone subject is taken as the basic structure of being. The quotes below are attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy, organized by topic.
Jean-Luc Nancy on God
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:
“To deconstruct Christianity is to follow it to the end of itself.”
Jean-Luc Nancy on Love
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:
“Being is being-with.”
Jean-Luc Nancy on Nature
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:
“The body is not a sign; it is the very space of meaning.”
Jean-Luc Nancy on Politics
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:
“Community is not lost; it is always already happening.”
Jean-Luc Nancy on Truth
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:
“Sense is the dimension along which we exist with one another.”