Monday Night -- 02.26.01 -- Reading Group at 16 Beaver
From (Jean-Luc) Nancy with Love:
CONTENTS:
1. About This Monday (text selected by John)
2. About the Author
3. Definition of Love (OED)
4. About READING E-MAIL LIST
5. About efax Reader
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1. About This Monday
Using our recent discussions based around texts by Roland Barthes & Bell Hooks
as a link, John has suggested the following Jean-Luc Nancy text...."Shattered Love"
...from a selection of texts which we are likely to revisit entitled : The Inoperative Community.
Last week the discussion was structured around different notions of Love and our ability to think/rethink love as something more than your standard dictionary notion
(the oxford version you will find below). Love as an ethics. Love as a category worthy of our time and analysis. A recap of last week's discussion may be in order, but this e-mail is meant to introduce this week's text.
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2. About the Author
Jean-Luc Nancy, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, and a significant voice in the international cultural debate on post-modernism and beyond. Trained in German languages and literature, he combines literary theory and Continental philosophy with a new vision of the sociopolitical dimension. Author of The Birth to Presence; The Literary Absolute (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe); The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan (with Lacoue-Labarthe); Inoperative Community; The Experience of Freedom; The Muses; The Sense of the World; ĘTRE SINGULIER PLURIEL.
"Art is open to the fragmentation of sense that existence is. It was always open to this. But today, the yawning of this opening distends and even tears it from one end to the other: on the scale of an in-finity of sense that we expect to respond for us. Not, first of all, as an 'aesthetic' response but, rather, as an unprecedented art of being in the world
That being is absolutely being — with — this is what we must think. With is the first mark of being, the mark of the singular plurality of the origin or of the origin within the With.”
If you are interested in taking a class with him and coming back and reporting your experience, he teaches the following at the European Graduate School:
FREEDOM AND THE COMMUNITARY EXPERIENCE (3 credits)
Examining the absence/presence of community with regard to the experience of freedom, discourse, myth and the individual.
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3. Definition of Love (from the OED)
noun 1 [MASS NOUN] an intense feeling of deep affection: babies fill parents with intense feelings of love | their love for their country.
= a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone: it was love at first sight | they were both in love with her | we were slowly falling in love. n (Love) a personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid. n a great interest and pleasure in something: his love for football | we share a love of music. n affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf. n a formula for ending an affectionate letter: take care, lots of love, Judy.
= a person or thing that one loves: she was the love of his life | their two great loves are tobacco and whisky.
n Brit. informal a friendly form of address: it's all right, love. n (a love) informal used to express affectionate approval for someone: don't fret, there's a love.
3 [MASS NOUN] (in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil: love fifteen | he was down two sets to love. [ORIGIN: apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e. the love of the game, not for money); folk etymology has connected the word with French l'oeuf 'egg', from the resemblance in shape between an egg and a zero.]
verb [with OBJ.] feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone): do you love me?
= like very much; find pleasure in: I'd love a cup of tea, thanks | I just love dancing | [as ADJ., in COMBINATION] (-loving) a fun-loving girl.
— PHRASES
for love for pleasure not profit: he played for the love of the game.
for the love of God used to express annoyance, surprise, or urgent pleading: for the love of God, get me out of here!
for the love of Mike Brit. informal used to accompany an exasperated request or to express dismay.
love me, love my dog proverb if you love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their faults or weaknesses.
make love 1 have sexual intercourse.
2 (make love to) dated pay amorous attention to (someone).
not for love or money informal not for any inducement or in any circumstances: they'll not return for love or money.
there's no (or little or not much) love lost between there is mutual dislike between (two or more people mentioned).
—ORIGIN Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati 'desires', Latin libet 'it is pleasing', libido 'desire', also by LEAVE2 and LIEF.
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4. READING LIST
If you are already on the READING LIST, please disregard
To prevent flooding people's e-mails with large files,
I am assembling a list of people who would like to receive part 2 of this week's reading.
I am also starting a list of people who do not mind receiving the full readings each week.
If you would like to receive this week's reading, you have two choices:
1. Just this week!
Just send an e-mail to sixteenbeaver@aol.com with subject heading "nancy". Please
indicate within the e-mail message to which e-mail address you would like it sent.
2. Always and Forever!
If you would like to be placed on a list that always receives the readings (in full).
Then send an e-mail to sixteenbeaver@aol.com with subject heading "READING LIST"
____________________________________
5. A NOTE ON THE EFAX MESSENGER:
For Mondays we often like to distribute work, notes, readings to accompany presentations. In these cases we use this messenger as a simple and cost efficient way of distributing the materials. The download is short (it is a small program) and quite simple to use. It allows you to read digital faxes (and of course to print them). When you follow the link below, please make sure to download the correct viewer. There is one for Windows and one for Mac. The one for Mac will take a bit longer to download. Here is the link,
http://www.efax.com/need/index.htmlReading Group at 16 Beaver
From (Jean-Luc) Nancy with Love: (attached file part 1 of reading)
CONTENTS:
1. About This Monday (text selected by John)
2. About the Author
3. Definition of Love (OED)
4. About READING E-MAIL LIST
5. About efax Reader
______________________________________________
1. About This Monday
Using our recent discussions based around texts by Roland Barthes & Bell Hooks
as a link, John has suggested the following Jean-Luc Nancy text...."Shattered Love"
...from a selection of texts which we are likely to revisit entitled : The Inoperative Community.
Last week the discussion was structured around different notions of Love and our ability to think/rethink love as something more than your standard dictionary notion
(the oxford version you will find below). Love as an ethics. Love as a category worthy of our time and analysis. A recap of last week's discussion may be in order, but this e-mail is meant to introduce this week's text.
______________________________________________
2. About the Author
Jean-Luc Nancy, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, and a significant voice in the international cultural debate on post-modernism and beyond. Trained in German languages and literature, he combines literary theory and Continental philosophy with a new vision of the sociopolitical dimension. Author of The Birth to Presence; The Literary Absolute (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe); The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan (with Lacoue-Labarthe); Inoperative Community; The Experience of Freedom; The Muses; The Sense of the World; ĘTRE SINGULIER PLURIEL.
"Art is open to the fragmentation of sense that existence is. It was always open to this. But today, the yawning of this opening distends and even tears it from one end to the other: on the scale of an in-finity of sense that we expect to respond for us. Not, first of all, as an 'aesthetic' response but, rather, as an unprecedented art of being in the world
That being is absolutely being — with — this is what we must think. With is the first mark of being, the mark of the singular plurality of the origin or of the origin within the With.”
If you are interested in taking a class with him and coming back and reporting your experience, he teaches the following at the European Graduate School:
FREEDOM AND THE COMMUNITARY EXPERIENCE (3 credits)
Examining the absence/presence of community with regard to the experience of freedom, discourse, myth and the individual.
______________________________________________
3. Definition of Love (from the OED)
noun 1 [MASS NOUN] an intense feeling of deep affection: babies fill parents with intense feelings of love | their love for their country.
= a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone: it was love at first sight | they were both in love with her | we were slowly falling in love. n (Love) a personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid. n a great interest and pleasure in something: his love for football | we share a love of music. n affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf. n a formula for ending an affectionate letter: take care, lots of love, Judy.
= a person or thing that one loves: she was the love of his life | their two great loves are tobacco and whisky.
n Brit. informal a friendly form of address: it's all right, love. n (a love) informal used to express affectionate approval for someone: don't fret, there's a love.
3 [MASS NOUN] (in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil: love fifteen | he was down two sets to love. [ORIGIN: apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e. the love of the game, not for money); folk etymology has connected the word with French l'oeuf 'egg', from the resemblance in shape between an egg and a zero.]
verb [with OBJ.] feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone): do you love me?
= like very much; find pleasure in: I'd love a cup of tea, thanks | I just love dancing | [as ADJ., in COMBINATION] (-loving) a fun-loving girl.
— PHRASES
for love for pleasure not profit: he played for the love of the game.
for the love of God used to express annoyance, surprise, or urgent pleading: for the love of God, get me out of here!
for the love of Mike Brit. informal used to accompany an exasperated request or to express dismay.
love me, love my dog proverb if you love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their faults or weaknesses.
make love 1 have sexual intercourse.
2 (make love to) dated pay amorous attention to (someone).
not for love or money informal not for any inducement or in any circumstances: they'll not return for love or money.
there's no (or little or not much) love lost between there is mutual dislike between (two or more people mentioned).
—ORIGIN Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati 'desires', Latin libet 'it is pleasing', libido 'desire', also by LEAVE2 and LIEF.
______________________________________________
4. READING LIST
If you are already on the READING LIST, please disregard
To prevent flooding people's e-mails with large files,
I am assembling a list of people who would like to receive part 2 of this week's reading.
I am also starting a list of people who do not mind receiving the full readings each week.
If you would like to receive this week's reading, you have two choices:
1. Just this week!
Just send an e-mail to sixteenbeaver@aol.com with subject heading "nancy". Please
indicate within the e-mail message to which e-mail address you would like it sent.
2. Always and Forever!
If you would like to be placed on a list that always receives the readings (in full).
Then send an e-mail to sixteenbeaver@aol.com with subject heading "READING LIST"
____________________________________
5. A NOTE ON THE EFAX MESSENGER:
For Mondays we often like to distribute work, notes, readings to accompany presentations. In these cases we use this messenger as a simple and cost efficient way of distributing the materials. The download is short (it is a small program) and quite simple to use. It allows you to read digital faxes (and of course to print them). When you follow the link below, please make sure to download the correct viewer. There is one for Windows and one for Mac. The one for Mac will take a bit longer to download. Here is the link,
http://www.efax.com/need/index.html
