What is it about?
In my understanding, Jean-Luc Nancy sees the soul as the reflection of the body. In my article I try to explore three possibilities how to conceptualise the body itself without the soul, while not violating Nancy's ideas.
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Why is it important?
It is unique especially because it integrates some buddhist thinking and also an interesting but almost unknown Czech thinker Růžena Grebeníčková and connects those to Jean-Luc Nancy, an important French philosopher.
Perspectives
I like that I was able to put a Czech perspective on the topic, use my native language knowledge, as well as to put there an excerpt of a Czech baroque poem. The text is very interdisciplinary, I also made use of my knowledge from anthropological studies and integrate a reflection of a Thai buddhist meditation practice.
Marketa Jakesova
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: Mass of Bodies, Body as a Mass: The Other of the Other in Jean-Luc Nancy, Research in Phenomenology, May 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15691640-12341437.
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