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FINALIST, 38th ANNUAL FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE
Exploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy
In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
Far from an abstract account, Nancy attends in the most concrete way possible to the workings of a city not typically taken as paradigmatic, Los Angeles. As Jean-Christophe Bailly suggests in his foreword, Nancy joins Walter Benjamin in thinking the city not from an external vantage point, but on its own terms.
Contents
Foreword: The City beyond the Place | vii
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Preface: The Uncivil City | xi
The City in the Distance | 1
First Part (1987): In the Distance . . . Los Angeles | 3
Second Part (1999): The City in the Distance | 16
Images of the City | 36
Traffic/Click | 60
The Two Futures of the City | 82
An Art of the City | 90
Rumoration | 111
Moments of the City | 114
Acknowledgments | 119
Notes | 121
