1. Jean-Luc Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque speculative in 1973 on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope and L'Imperatif categorique on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum on Rene Descartes, and Le Partage des voix on Martin Heidegger.
Jean-Luc Nancy is credited with helping to reopen the question of the ground of community and politics with his 1985 work La communaute desoeuvree, following Blanchot's The Unavowable Community and Agamben responded to both with The Coming Community.
Jean-Luc Nancy graduated in philosophy in 1962 from the University of Paris.
Jean-Luc Nancy taught for a short while in Colmar before becoming an assistant at the Strasbourg Institut de Philosophie in 1968.
Jean-Luc Nancy was then promoted to Maitre de conferences at the Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg.
Jean-Luc Nancy has been invited as a cultural delegate of the French Ministry of External Affairs to speak in Eastern Europe, Britain and the United States.
In 1987, Jean-Luc Nancy became a Docteur d'Etat at the Universite de Toulouse-Le-Mirail for a thesis on freedom in Heidegger under the supervision of Gerard Granel.
Jean-Luc Nancy underwent a heart transplant and his recovery was made more difficult by a long-term cancer diagnosis.
Jean-Luc Nancy stopped teaching and participating in almost all of the committees with which he was engaged, but continued to write.
Jean-Luc Nancy was Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School.
Jean-Luc Nancy has written about the filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and featured prominently in the film The Ister.
Jean-Luc Nancy writes that our attempt to design society according to pre-planned definitions frequently leads to social violence and political terror, posing the social and political question of how to proceed with the development of society with this knowledge in mind.
Since then, Jean-Luc Nancy has continued to concentrate on developing a reorientation of Heidegger's work.
Jean-Luc Nancy argues that it is necessary to think freedom in its finite being, because to think of it as the property of an infinite subject is to make any finite being a limit of freedom.
Jean-Luc Nancy describes our being in the world as an exposure to a naked existence, without the possibility of support by a fundamental metaphysical order or cause.
Jean-Luc Nancy argues that an authentic "dwelling" in the world must be concerned with the creation of meaning and not final purposes, closed essences, and exclusive worldviews.
Jean-Luc Nancy has written for art catalogues and international art journals, especially on contemporary art.
Jean-Luc Nancy writes poetry and for the theatre and has earned respect as an influential philosopher of art and culture.
Jean-Luc Nancy has published books on film and music, as well as texts on the problem of representation, on the statute of literature, on image and violence, and on the work of On Kawara, Charles Baudelaire, and Friedrich Holderlin.
Jean-Luc Nancy has written extensively on film, including The Evidence of Film, a short work on Abbas Kiarostami.
Jean-Luc Nancy appears in the film The Ister, based on Martin Heidegger's 1942 lectures on Friedrich Holderlin's poem "Der Ister".
Jean-Luc Nancy has developed three films in conjunction with artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell.
Jean-Luc Nancy contributed a poem, 'Oh The Animals of Language' to Warnell's 2014 feature-length film 'Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air'.
Warnell and Jean-Luc Nancy worked on a new text-film collaboration which was completed in 2017, 'The Flying Proletarian'.