What is Jean-Luc Nancy?
[[File:Jean-Luc Nancy 20100328 Salon du livre de Paris 3.jpg|thumb|Jean-Luc Nancy]] '''Jean-Luc Nancy''' ({{IPAc-en|n|ɑː|n|ˈ|s|iː}}; {{IPA-fr|ʒɑ̃.lyk nɑ̃si|lang}}; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French [[Philosophy|philosopher]]. He was born near [[Bordeaux]], [[France]]. He taught at the [[University of Strasbourg]]. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992). He wrote many books such as ''La remarque spéculative'' in 1973 (''The Speculative Remark'', 2001) on [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], ''Le Discours de la syncope'' (1976) and ''L'Impératif catégorique'' (1983) on [[Immanuel Kant]], ''Ego sum'' (1979) on [[René Descartes]], and ''Le Partage des voix'' (1982) on [[Martin Heidegger]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1773|title=On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy|first1=Jacques|last1=Derrida|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804742436|year=2005}}</ref> Nancy died on 23 August 2021 in [[Strasbourg]], France at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dna.fr/culture-loisirs/2021/08/24/jean-luc-nancy-est-decede|title=Le philosophe Jean-Luc Nancy est décédé|work=Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace|language=fr|date=24 August 2021|access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nancy, Jean-Luc}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:French philosophers]] [[Category:French academics]] [[Category:Writers from Bordeaux]] {{bio-stub}}