Nancy JeanLuc

French philosopher whose 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 G.W.F. 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. Major influences include Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Friedrich Nietzsche. Nancy died on 23 August 2021 at the age of 81. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less