Being Singular Plural

This book by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers includes an extensive essay titled "Being Singular Plural" and five shorter essays that relate to it. Nancy's philosophy seeks to rethink community and social ideas beyond individual subjectivity, emphasizing that being is always "being with"—that "I" is not prior to "we," and that existence is fundamentally co-existence. The book explores these themes through discussions on national sovereignty, war, technology, identity politics, the Gulf War, and Sarajevo, illustrating how the concept of "being-with" applies to various social issues. It also reinterprets major philosophical ideas such as Nietzsche’s "eternal recurrence," Descartes’s "cogito," and the nature of language and meaning.