TY - CHAP

T1 - The Break In and With History

T2 - Nancy‘s Thinking of History in the Light of the Disruptive Condition

AU - Hörl, Erich

PY - 2023/6

Y1 - 2023/6

N2 - The chapter reconstructs a far-reaching reflection of Nancy’s on the theory of history that lays bare the signature of our present: the suspension of history. “Getting out of history,” the break of and in history, and the stepping into something other than history come into view as the fundamental movement that has been happening to us for at least half a century. The determination of our epochality as the time of suspended history is traced by the mutations of sense, of community, and the world that this philosophical oeuvre works through so powerfully. Nancy’s thinking of suspension, as it may be called against this background, ultimately testifies to a new socio-historical experience by which, to a certain extent, it seems itself to be written: the disruption. Shock, break, interruption, discontinuity without any sublation in a modern history of progress, improvement, emancipation are the structural characteristics of this now dominant experience that can be summarized as the pure immanence of the interruptive, at whose bidding we live today. Being-now means Being-in-the-disruption.

AB - The chapter reconstructs a far-reaching reflection of Nancy’s on the theory of history that lays bare the signature of our present: the suspension of history. “Getting out of history,” the break of and in history, and the stepping into something other than history come into view as the fundamental movement that has been happening to us for at least half a century. The determination of our epochality as the time of suspended history is traced by the mutations of sense, of community, and the world that this philosophical oeuvre works through so powerfully. Nancy’s thinking of suspension, as it may be called against this background, ultimately testifies to a new socio-historical experience by which, to a certain extent, it seems itself to be written: the disruption. Shock, break, interruption, discontinuity without any sublation in a modern history of progress, improvement, emancipation are the structural characteristics of this now dominant experience that can be summarized as the pure immanence of the interruptive, at whose bidding we live today. Being-now means Being-in-the-disruption.

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Philosophy

KW - post-structuralism

KW - deconstruction

KW - ethics

KW - community

KW - democracy

UR - https://diaphanes.com/titel/thinking-withjean-luc-nancy-7366

UR - https://diaphanes.com/titel/the-break-in-and-with-history-7684

UR - https://d-nb.info/1257905805

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-0358-0552-9

SP - 185

EP - 200

BT - Thinking With – Jean-Luc Nancy

A2 - Lindberg, Susanna

A2 - Magun, Artemy

A2 - Tatari, Marita

PB - Diaphanes Verlag

CY - Zürich

ER -