Il peso di un pensiero, l'approssimarsi

The volume is a critical work (introduction, translation, notes and bibliography) of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Le poids d’une pensee, l’approche, published by La Phocide, Paris 2008. The ‘gravity’ of thought is what still remains to be thought. This gravity cannot be demonstrated by “strokes, sketches, stolen profiles, lost traces”. In his essays, Nancy invites us to experiment the downward spiral of thought towards a center of gravity that seems unreachable yet attainable; it is there. It is from this place that Nancy invites us to ponder upon the meaning of the world, of the body and existence, forcing us to face and recognize the fundamentals and the madness of identity. Nancy’s philosophical expression is meant to be a work of weighty ‘resistance’ that succeeds in eliminating attemps of representation, the logic of underpinnings and all metaphysical hubris that seeks to measure everyday life. All of this brings us to a radical rethinking of where we come from and where we are going; in other words, what we would like to be: ‘there is no place, nor heaven, nor gods: dismantling and deconstruction of closed spaces, enclosures, or seals’