Coming

by Jean-Luc Nancy, Adèle van Reeth, Charlotte Mandell (Translation)

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue, ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism and from Spinoza, Hegel, andAugustine to the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller. Four additional essays are new to the American edition.

Genres: Philosophy

168 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 2014

About the author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works, including The Muses (1996), The Experience of Freedom (1993), The Birth to Presence (1993), Being Singular Plural (2000), The Speculative Remark (2001), and A Finite Thinking (2003).

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the "experience of alterity is at the source of jouissance" (27), it is also "the deformation of all form" (31). So, yeah, it's this type of text. A discussion between JLN and Adele van Reeth, or perhaps she's interviewing him, it zips along fairly easily. Several supplemental essays are appended. For a book on sex, there's a decent amount of political and linguistic considerations. Regarding that last quoted bit, he invents the shelf name by stating that "Eroticism or pornography are two systems of accepted, defined forms. But in the act of the relationship [rapport], forms are invented and they even invent their own excess, their own surpassing" (32).

Some great references along the way (Blanchot, Lacan, Foucault, and so on), but my favorite is: "because the body of the other is mixed with my body. In the sexual relationship, a body is created that is aligned with Antonin Artaud’s “organless body,” that is, a body conceived no longer as an organism, but as the production of desire" (23).

Or: "But différance is precisely the relationship to self as that which differs from self. I would say rather: Différance is jouissance, and vice- versa" (41).

Pretty decent overall. Recommended for all those who wondered if prohibition is necessary for jouissance.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

My full review is in the February issue of Numero Cinq: http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2017/02...

[Pablo Pereira]

«¿Por qué el arte no se detiene? ¿Por qué los hombres siguen creando? Porque en el arte, como en el goce sexual, nunca decimos que tenemos "bastante"».

Pequeño librillo en donde Jean-Luc Nancy conversa con Adèle van Reeth sobre el goce, pero concomitantemente a esto ambos abordan cuestiones como el deseo, el arte, el psicoanálisis, la sociedad de consumo y demás.
Hay reflexiones súper interesantes y después hay otras que quizá no llegué a entender del todo porque, si bien conozco algo de filosofía, no he leído a Spinoza, por ejemplo, que en un momento lo cita y habla sobre conceptos de él. De este filósofo francés leí 58 indicios sobre el cuerpo que también tiene reflexiones que dejan pensando.

[Philodoxias · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un estilo aireado, quizá demasiado.

[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Jouissance” is my favorite French word for a reason lol

[Esther Mor-Ningstar · Rating 4 out of 5]

De la relación sexual a las sociedades abiertas. Sin esencias ni fronteras. Solo apertura.