{"product_id":"the-fragile-skin-of-the-world-paperback-softback-9781509549160","title":"The Fragile Skin of the World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509549160","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Fragile Skin of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author), Cory Stockwell (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509549160, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.204 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this weaving together of texts, what emerges is a way of thinking the here and now, when everything appears to be falling apart, when progress isn't progressing; an extreme fragility of existence that opens onto 'exemplary stories of the 'flesh''.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eProfessor Philip Armstrong, Ohio State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... a significant collection of Nancy's work.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhenomenological Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unity. The world is neither an animal nor a machine but an interminable jumble whose destination is nothing other than the maelstrom in which the very idea of the world slips away. The world has no skin other than the turbulence that makes histories, customs, moments of grandeur and decadence. Because it is not a skin, this extension of space-time is much more fragile than the skins that are already always fragile, because everything here touches its extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe world is everything that passes between us – ourselves and everything that happens to us, everything that becomes of our contacts, our gazes, our movements; and through referrals from skin to skin, from the fleeting to the immemorial, you reach, without even knowing it, the entire actuality of the world: the act of its existence. This act is made up of works and disasters, splendours, horrors, and catastrophes. As long as it is ours, it is the act of an infinite emergence that is all the sense there is: a sense that incessantly goes from skin to skin and is itself never enveloped by anything.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe texts in this volume are all oriented by the concern for what is currently happening to us – we, late humanoids – when we arrive at an extremity of our history, whether this extremity should turn out to be a stage, a rupture, or quite simply a last breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOverture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eI. A Time to Come without Past or Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eII. From Ontology to Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eIII. Juan Manuel Garrido: Not the Universal, But the Unknown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eIV. Right Here in the Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eV. The Accident and the Season\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eVI. Jean-Christophe Bailly: Havâ \/ Zamân\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eVII. The Fragile Skin of the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eVIII. Taking On Board (Of the World and of Singularity) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-family: Arial\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 13.3333px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; background-color: #f7f3e7\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003eNotes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462979907864,"sku":"9781509549160","price":14.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509549160.jpg?v=1785544169","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-fragile-skin-of-the-world-paperback-softback-9781509549160","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}