1940 - 2021
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, 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.
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 313
1899 - 1959
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 314
459 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 315
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 316
80 BC - 10 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 317
385 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 318
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 319
1355 - 1452
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 320
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 321
1808 - 1874
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 322
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 323
1901 - 1991
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 324
450 - 529
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 325
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.
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 51
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 52
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 53
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 54
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 55
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 56
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 57
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 58
1940 - 1994
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 59
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 60
1940 - 2017
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 61
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 62
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 63
1931 - 2021
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 41
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 42
1928 - 2021
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 43
1948 - 2021
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 44
1943 - 2021
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 45
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 46
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 47
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 48
1939 - 2021
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 49
1942 - 2021
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 50
1941 - 2021
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 51
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 52
1934 - 2021
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 53
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).
1871 - 1956
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 851
1904 - 2000
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 852
1592 - 1635
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 853
1908 - 2001
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 854
1836 - 1924
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 855
1932 - 2018
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 856
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 857
1361 - 1425
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 858
1863 - 1937
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 859
1931 - Present
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 860
1917 - 2017
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 861
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 862
1450 - 1491
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 863
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).
1847 - 1922
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 37
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 38
1930 - 1992
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 39
1050 - 1121
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 40
1857 - 1939
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 41
1458 - 1521
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 42
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 43
1901 - 1991
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 44
1947 - 2022
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 45
1612 - 1694
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 46
1921 - Present
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 47
1923 - 2015
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 48
1460 - 1537
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 49