?Drawing from Lacoue-Labarthe?s intuition that antisemitism is both ?historial? and ?spiritual?, Nancy offers us a decisive rethinking of the ?banality? of antisemitic hatred and violence situated in light of the historical-metaphysical constitution of the Subject and the specific configuration of Europe and the West.?
Philip Armstrong, The Ohio State University
Jean-Luc Nancy is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg and teaches Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.