{"product_id":"the-intruder-paperback","title":"The Intruder - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClaire Denis\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComplete in English for the first time, a major philosopher's most personal work and the source of an acclaimed film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Seductive and mercurial, Nancy's book has propagated an ecosystem of texts and images all its own--not least Claire Denis's adaptation (adoption?), one of the crucial films of the twenty-first century.\"--\u003cb\u003eLeo Goldsmith\u003c\/b\u003e, film critic and programmer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"'I was no longer in me' Nancy's stunning formula states a truth that threatens every border with a knowledge of its illusory rigidity and the false homogeneity of what it would protect. Ultimately, Nancy tells us with unsettling lucidity, everybody--every body--is an intruder \u003ci\u003eof itself.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--\u003cb\u003eJeff Fort\u003c\/b\u003e, from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eComplete in English for the first time, a major philosopher's most personal work and the source of an acclaimed film.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous complications followed, including more surgeries and lymphatic cancer. The procedure and illnesses he endured revealed to him, in a more visceral way than most of us ever experience, the strangeness of bodily existence itself and surviving the stranger within him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring this same period, Europe began closing its borders to those seeking refuge from war and poverty. Alarmed at this trend and drawn to a highly intimate form of strangeness with which he had been living for years, Nancy set out in \u003ci\u003eThe Intruder\u003c\/i\u003e to articulate how intrusion--whether of a body or a border--is not antithetical to one's identity but constitutive of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2004, Claire Denis adapted \u003ci\u003eThe Intruder\u003c\/i\u003e into a film already hailed among the most important of our century. This edition includes Nancy's and Denis's accounts of turning philosophy into film and the text of a shorter collaboration between the two of them. Throughout, Nancy and Denis push us to recognize that to truly welcome strangers means a constant struggle against exoticism, enforced assimilation, and confidence in our own self-identity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Nancy \u003c\/b\u003e(1940-2021) was Distinguished Professor\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eof Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eone of the late twentieth and early twenty-first\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ecentury's\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eforemost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ethought runs through many books, including \u003ci\u003eBeing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommunity, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSexistence\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Denis (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eClaire Denis \u003c\/b\u003eis the director of fifteen films, including \u003ci\u003eBeau Travail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChocolat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e35 Shots of Rum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Material\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e High Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent film, \u003ci\u003eStars at Noon\u003c\/i\u003e, won the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eGrand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41731436281991,"sku":"9781531506186","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/59225933adc6a5d02610354ed65c3f90.webp?v=1734093549","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-intruder-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}