The sense of the world

The call for guiding principles, the demand for meaning - this is generally what is posed to the philosopher. "We live by being exposed to the abandonment of meaning": This initially puzzling phrase by Jean-Luc Nancy describes our existence in a world that is not a home, but rather a world of absent meaning. The project of turning deconstruction into the political, which Nancy has pursued for years with great tenacity and radical precision down to the finest linguistic nuances, focuses in "The Sense of the World" against the backdrop of an ever more overpowering, "globalizing" globalization that allows for no outside. The texts gathered in this volume navigate along previously unthought crises, wars and conflicts, a wild overflow of technology, a new thinking of nature and ecology, of mondiality.