On a more collective basis, I have edited a volume of essays titled Jean-Luc Nancy Among the Philosophers (2023) for Fordham University Press. Contributors include the late Werner Hamacher, Rodophe Gasché, Marie-Eve Morin, Eleanor Kaufman, Emily Apter, John Smith, Georges Van Den Abbeele, and Tim Murray. The cover design is based on a painting by the artist Lesley Oldaker, and I thank her for allowing us to use it for our cover.
Routledge has published the volume French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (2019) that I edited. I am very happy to have Robert JC Young, Nicholas Royle, Laurent Milesi, Clare Connors, Judith Still, Jane Hiddleston, Mark Featherstone, Simon Morgan Wortham, Martin Parker, Joanna Hodge, and Naomi Waltham-Smith as contributors.
And music has finally caught up with me (see my Music Matters page) in terms of academic publication: Scott Michaelsen very generously asked me to edit a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review on music. I took up the offer, and the aim of special issue was to revitalize the dialogue between music and theory/ philosophy, a dialogue that was so vibrant in the late 70s and 80s. I am extremely delighted to have Claire Colebrook and Timothy Morton among the contributors. Harvard music grad student and composer, Christopher Swithinbank, was a wonderful coeditor with me for this special issue.
A few years ago, Timothy Murray (Cornell) and I had also seen to the publication of the second and final volume (2016) of the special issue of diacritics on "The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy," which we both co-edited. The first volume (2015) features contributions from Verena Andermatt Conley, Jeffrey Librett, Philip Armstrong, and Tim himself, and includes Nancy's essay "Que faire?," which I have translated into English as "What Is to Be Done?" The artwork that traverses this volume is that of Simon Hantaï's. In the second volume, you will find contributions from Eleanor Kaufman, Frédéric Neyrat, and myself, plus my translation of Nancy's "Sexistence." As for the artwork in this volume, it is François Martin's, taken from Nancy's private collection.
Another volume of essays on Nancy, Nancy Now, which I co-edit with Verena Andermatt Conley (Harvard), was published by Polity Press in October 2014. I see this as an intimate collection, with contributions from Nancy's contemporaries such as Giorgio Agamben and Etienne Balibar, and from his former students such as Gregg Lambert and myself. One also finds Nancy's "Dialogue Beneath the Ribs," an internal dialogue reflecting on his heart transplant that he had almost twenty years earlier.
