Round table on J.-L. Nancyʼs book «Being singular plural»

Abstract

In June 2019, in the city of Polack (Belarus), as part of the bilateral Belarus – Russian research project «Distribution of knowledge in a network society: the interaction of archaic and modern forms», a round table was held. It was devoted to the text of the famous French philosopher J.-L. Nancy «Being singular plural» (Être singulier pluriel, 1996). The key concept of the project which is distributed knowledge, is well defined with what J.-L. Nancy calls cum-. Explaining the consistency of the J.-L. Nancy’s text with the chosen research perspective, the round table participants expand the context of the use of concepts such as contingency, distribution, Mitsein, trying to comply with the claim of J.-L. Nancy’s book wich is (re)writing first philosophy.

Author Biographies

Evgenii V. Malyshkin, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia

doctor of science (philosophy), docent; professor at the department of theory and methodology for teaching arts and humanities, faculty of liberal arts and sciences

Aleksandr A. Pogrebniak, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia

PhD (economics), docent; associate professor at the department of problems of interdisciplinary synthesis in the field of social sciences and humanities, faculty of liberal arts and sciences

Julia J. Gafarova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (philosophy), docent; associate professor at the department of social communication, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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Published
2020-01-29
Keywords: distribution, distributed knowledge, contingency, Mitsein, first philosophy
Supporting Agencies The study was conducted with the financial support of the Belarusian Republic Foundation for Fundamental Research and the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research in the framework of the scientific project «Distribution of knowledge in a network society: the interaction of archaic and modern forms» (No. Г18Р-181, No. 18-511-00018 Бел_а).
How to Cite
Malyshkin, E. V., Pogrebniak, A. A., & Gafarova, J. J. (2020). Round table on J.-L. Nancyʼs book «Being singular plural». Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 15-22. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/philosophy/article/view/2067
Issue
No 1 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology
Section
Round Tables and Discussions

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