The Birth to Presence (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But what comes after the West? What comes after representation's disclosure of its own limit?

The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterizes being. We are now at the limit of representation, where objects as we experience them have been show to be merely objects of representation—or rather, of presentation, since...

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  • ISBN10 0804721890
  • ISBN13 9780804721899
  • Publish Date 1 March 1994 (first published 1 September 1933)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Stanford University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 440
  • Language English