On TouchingJean-Luc Nancy

"The translation of On Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy is a momentous event, for this is one of the greatest, most important works in Derrida's immense oeuvre. It undertakes nothing less than a deconstruction of the phenomenological principle of principles, intuitionism, and the touchstone experience called touching. In a circulation through the history of philosophy since Aristotle up to the work of his contemporary and beloved friend Jean-Luc Nancy, the epochal thinker of touch, this book comes from and goes to the very heart of Derrida's thought." Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Rogues (2005), Eyes of the University (2004), For What Tomorrow... with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2004), Negotiations (2002), Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by the Stanford University Press.

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Foreword iii Translator's Preface iii @toc2:"When our eyes touch " 000 @toc3:Signing a Question--from Aristotle @toc1:Part I: This Is--of the Other @toc2:1. Psyche 000 @toc3:"Around her, with such exact and cruel knowledge" @toc2:2. Spacings 000 @toc3:The Incommensurable, Syncope, and Words Beginning with ex- @toc2:3. This Is My Body 000 @toc3:Points Already: Counterpoint, Mourning Psyche, and the Hand of @toc2:4. The Untouchable, or the Vow of Abstinence 000 @toc3:The Exorbitant, 1--Tact "beyond the possible"--Stroking, Striking, Thinking, Weighing: Mourning Eros and the Other Hand of @toc2:5. Tender 000 @toc3:This Is My Heart, "the heart of another" @toc2:6. Nothing to Do with Sight: "There's no 'the' sense of touch" 000 @toc3:Haptics, techne, or Body Ecotechnics @toc1:Part II: Exemplary Stories of the "Flesh" @toc2:7. Tangent I 000 @toc3:Hand of Man, Hand of God @toc2:8. Tangent II 000 @toc3:"For example, my hand"--"The hand itself"--"For example, the finger"--"For example, 'I feel my heart'" @toc2:9. Tangent III 000 @toc3:The Exorbitant, 2, "Crystallization of the impossible": "Flesh," and, again, "For example, my hand" @toc2:10. Tangent IV 000 @toc3:Tangency and Contingency, 1: The "question of technics" and the "aporias" of Flesh, "(contact, at bottom)" @toc2:11. Tangent V 000 @toc3:Tangency and Contingency, 2: "The 'merciful hand of the Father,' with which he thus touches us, is the Son. the Word that is 'the touch that touches the Soul' (toque de la Divinidadel toque que toca al alma)" @toc1:Part III: Punctuations: "And you." @toc2:12. "To self-touch you" 000 @toc3:Touching--Language and the Heart @toc2:13. "And to you." The Incalculable 000 @toc3:Exactitude, Punctuality, Punctuation @toc2:Salve 000 @toc3:Untimely Postscript, for Want of a Final Retouch @toc1: @toc2:Salut to you, salut to the blind we become 000 @tocca:Jean-Luc Nancy @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000