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PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Luc Nancy

1940 - 2021

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Jean-Luc Nancy ( nahn-SEE, French: [ʒɑ̃lyk nɑ̃si]; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Luc Nancy has received more than 347,338 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jean-Luc Nancy is the 319th most popular philosopher (up from 459th in 2019), the 857th most popular biography from France (up from 1,355th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Philosopher.

Jean-Luc Nancy is most famous for his work on phenomenology and deconstruction. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris VIII. He was also a visiting professor at Yale University, Brown University, and the University of California, Irvine.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 319 out of 1,081. Before him are Giovanni Gentile, Alfred Schütz, Thrasymachus, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Aenesidemus, and Heraclides Ponticus. After him are Gemistus Pletho, Alexandre Koyré, David Strauss, Moritz Schlick, Henri Lefebvre, and Mazdak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 57. Before him are Tarō Asō, Cliff Richard, Tom Jones, Nancy Pelosi, Denis Law, and James Cromwell. After him are Vicente Fernández, Raul Julia, Óscar Arias, Al Jarreau, Shahnaz Pahlavi, and Mina. Among people deceased in 2021, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 47. Before him are Martinus J. G. Veltman, Paul J. Crutzen, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Pierre Adams, Dušan Ivković, and Richard R. Ernst. After him are Vicente Fernández, Phil Spector, Hissène Habré, Abdelkader Bensalah, Isamu Akasaki, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 857 out of 6,011. Before him are Émile Borel (1871), Louis Néel (1904), Jacques Callot (1592), Balthus (1908), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), and Stéphane Audran (1932). After him are Charles III of Navarre (1361), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Caterina Valente (1931), Danielle Darrieux (1917), Juliette Binoche (1964), and Martin Schongauer (1450).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-Luc Nancy ranks 43. Before him are Georges Sorel (1847), Raymond Aron (1905), Félix Guattari (1930), Roscellinus (1050), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), and Sebastian Brant (1458). After him are Henri Lefebvre (1901), Bruno Latour (1947), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Edgar Morin (1921), René Girard (1923), and Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460).

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