ABSTRACT
In his ‘epigraph’ to the recent special issue of Paragraph dedicated precisely to his work, Nancy writes, after listing a number of the better known ‘trouble spots’ that have uncannily surfaced as the so-called New World Order from Bosnia to Somalia to Central Asia:
We’ll not come to the end of the list of places and marks of uncertainty, of helplessness, of anguish. There is something like a general loss of sense. Sense, that’s the word that matters to me today. A general flight of sense, whether it occurs in a political or esthetic or religious or whatever other form. Sense matters to me since, ‘philosophy’ deals with nothing else but sense. Absolutely nothing else. If sense is screwed to hell everywhere… this is obviously a philosophical concern, and also because philosophy is screwed to hell everywhere.2
