Add endorsement Author approved The first critical appraisal of Jean-Luc Nancy's immense contribution to contemporary visual culture Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the most original and compelling of those contemporary political and ethical philosophers who, like Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, have turned in recent works towards aesthetics and visual art. Nancy's challenging and inspiring writings on painting, film, photography, video and contemporary visual art have informed the work of scholars of visual culture and aesthetic theory as well as artists, filmmakers and curators. In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy's work, this collection reanimates the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, The Image: Mimesis and Methexis, reveals how Nancy's work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture. Carrie Giunta is a Visiting Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Adrienne Janus is lecturer in English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Image of Visual Culture, Adrienne Janus; 1. Cutting and Letting-BeMartin Crowley; 2. Dancing Equality: Image, Imitation and Participation,Christopher Watkin; 3. A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance, Return and Relation in Charlie Chaplin, Carrie Giunta; 4. The Image: Mimesis and Methexis Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Adrienne Janus; 5. On the Threshold: Visual Culture, Invisible Nature, Adrienne Janus; 6. Pornosophy: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Pornographic Image, Peter Banki; 7. Presentation and Disappearance / Présentation et Disparition, Translated by Adrienne Janus; 8. Writing in the Place of the Animal, Phillip Warnell; 9. Together at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy, Art and Community, Lorna Collins; 10. Turning Around the Written Mark, Opening from a Weight of Thought, Robert Luzar; 11. Uncanny Landscapes of Photography: The Partage of Double-exposure After Jean-Luc Nancy, Chris Heppell.