Creation of the World or Globalization

Name: Creation of the World or Globalization
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ISBN: 9780791470268

ISBN-10: 0791470261

ISBN-13: 9780791470268

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, David E. Pettigrew, Franï¿½ois Raffoul

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Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-forming), Nancy undertakes a rethinking of what "world-forming" might mean. At stake in this distinction is for him nothing less than two possible destinies of our humanity, and of our time. On the one hand, with globalization, there is the uniformity produced by a global economical and technological logic leading to the contrary of an inhabitable world, "the un-world"…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 3/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 137
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Translators' Acknowledgments


Translators' Introduction


Author's Prefatory Note to the English Language Edition


Author's Prefatory Note to the French Language Edition



Urbi et Orbi



Of Creation



Creation as Denaturation: Metaphysical Technology



Complements


Notes


Index