Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Prelude: The Silhouette of Jean-Luc Nancy x
Giorgio Agamben

1 Introduction: Time in Nancy 1
Irving Goh and Verena Andermatt Conley

2 Nancy's Inoperative Community 20
Etienne Balibar

3 "Literary Communism" 37
Gregg Lambert

4 Monograms: Then and "Now" 59
Georges Van Den Abbeele

5 Extended Drawing 90
Ginette Michaud

6 Differing on Difference 110
Ian James

7 (Mis)Reading in Dis-Enclosure 127
Isabelle Alfandary

8 Sovereignty Without Subject 152
Irving Goh

9 Dialogue Beneath the Ribs 171
Jean-Luc Nancy

Notes 175

Index 210

About the Author

Verena Conley is visiting professor of literature at Harvard University.

Irving Goh is a visiting scholar at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University.

Reviews

Drawing from some of the most prominent voices in contemporarycontinental philosophy, Nancy Now addresses an impressiverange of Nancy s texts and motifs. The essays included heredemonstrate in new and demanding ways the continued timeliness theuntimely contemporaneity of Nancy s thinking. Philip Armstrong, Ohio State University This cutting-edge collection proves that Nancy is the thinker ofour time. Nancy s understanding of the present disrupts everyclaim of equivalence underlying the world s politicaleconomy. Nancy Now is the constellation born from thisliberating breakthrough. Frederic Neyrat, University ofWisconsin-Madison