PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Luc Nancy

1940 - 2021

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Jean-Luc Nancy ( nahn-SEE; French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger. In addition to Le titre de la lettre, Nancy collaborated with Lacoue-Labarthe on several other books and articles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Luc Nancy is the 501st most popular philosopher (down from 469th in 2019), the 1,483rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,397th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean-Luc Nancy is most famous for his work on phenomenology and deconstruction. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris VIII. He was also a visiting professor at Yale University, Brown University, and the University of California, Irvine.

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Among philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 501 out of 1,267. Before him are Hasdai Crescas, Kapila, Ivan Ilyin, Norberto Bobbio, Hermann Lotze, and Johannes Althusius. After him are George Pachymeres, Homi K. Bhabha, Victor Cousin, Adam Ferguson, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, and Anania Shirakatsi.

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Among people born in 1940, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 108. Before him are Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Linda Gray, Richard Lynch, Mamnoon Hussain, Phil Ochs, and Gudrun Ensslin. After him are Kenneth Clarke, Max Mosley, James Brolin, Sepp Piontek, Katharine Ross, and Saul Kripke. Among people deceased in 2021, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 88. Before him are Lee Evans, Walter Mondale, Larry Flynt, Kim Yong-ju, Mamnoon Hussain, and Bernard Tapie. After him are George Jung, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, John McAfee, Richard Donner, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and Ronald DeFeo Jr..

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 1,483 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1401), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Catherine Spaak (1945), Bernard Tapie (1943), Jean Chacornac (1823), and Louis Jourdan (1921). After him are Maurice Barrès (1862), Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Georges Feydeau (1862), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), and Austen Henry Layard (1817).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 68. Before him are Guillaume Budé (1467), Michel de Certeau (1925), Ernest Gellner (1925), Pierre Duhem (1861), Petrus Ramus (1515), and Emmanuel Mounier (1905). After him are Victor Cousin (1792), Michel Serres (1930), Gersonides (1288), William of Champeaux (1070), Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), and Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717).

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