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丌賵丕乇賽 禺賵丕亘
丌賵丕乇賽 禺賵丕亘 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й� 禺丕氐 賵 睾乇蹖亘 賳丕賳爻蹖 丕爻鬲:鈥� 睾乇蹖亘 賴賲 亘賴 賲毓賳丕蹖 毓噩蹖亘 蹖丕 卮诏賮鬲 賵 賴賲 亘賴 賲毓賳丕蹖 亘蹖诏丕賳賴 賵 賳丕丌卮賳丕. 賳孬乇 卮丕毓乇丕賳賴鈥屰� 丕賵 亘丕 倬蹖卮蹖賳賴鈥屬囏й� 賮讴乇蹖 讴賴 賴賲賵丕乇賴 丕夭 丌乇丕蹖 讴丕賳鬲貙 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 亘賴鈥屫蒂堌� 賱丕讴丕賳貙 賵丕爻丕夭蹖 丿乇蹖丿丕 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賴爻鬲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж驰� 賴丕蹖丿诏乇 丕賱賴丕賲 賲蹖鈥屭屫必� 亘賴 爻乇丕睾 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 乇賮鬲賴 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 讴賲鬲乇 丿乇 賮賱爻賮賴 丕夭 丌賳 亘丨孬蹖 亘賴 賲蹖丕賳 丌賲丿賴 亘丕卮丿: 禺賵丕亘.
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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Jean-Luc Nancy
360听books206听followersJean-Luc Nancy is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works, including The Muses (1996), The Experience of Freedom (1993), The Birth to Presence (1993), Being Singular Plural (2000), The Speculative Remark (2001), and A Finite Thinking (2003).
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September 14, 2020
跇丕賳 賱賵讴 賳丕賳爻蹖 亘丕 賲鬲賳蹖 賲鬲乇丕讴賲 賵 賮卮乇丿賴 丕夭 禺賵丕亘 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 賵 丕蹖賳 賮卮乇丿诏蹖 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 丨鬲蹖 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲 鈥� 亘蹖丿丕乇 鈥� 賳賲蹖鈥屫促堌涁� 賵丕賯毓 賲鬲乇噩賲 賳賴丕蹖鬲 鬲賱丕卮 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘賴 讴丕乇 亘乇丿賴 貨 丕賲丕 夭蹖丕丿賴 賵賮丕丿丕乇 亘賴 賲鬲賳 亘賵丿賴 賵 丕蹖賳 毓蹖賳 亘賴 毓蹖賳 讴賱賲賴 鬲乇噩賲賴 讴乇丿賳 賲丕賳毓 賵 蹖丕 亘丕毓孬 丿爻鬲乇爻蹖 爻禺鬲 亘賴 賲毓賳丕蹖 賲鬲賳 卮丿賴.
[ 亘乇丕蹖 賲孬丕賱 趩蹖夭 丿讴丕乇鬲蹖 亘賴 趩賴 賲毓賳丕爻鬲責 賵 丌蹖丕 亘賴 噩丕蹖 thing 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇� 賵丕跇賴鈥屰� 賴賲 丕乇夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 賯乇丕乇 丿丕丿責 ]
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禺亘 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丕賵氐丕賮 亘丕 趩賳丿亘丕乇賴鈥屫堌з嗃� 爻毓蹖 讴乇丿賲 丕夭 賲鬲賳 亘賴乇賴 亘亘乇賲 賵 丕蹖賳讴賴 賱丕丕賯賱 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賮丕賴蹖賲蹖 讴賴 跇賵賱蹖丕 讴乇蹖爻鬲賵丕 亘丕乇賴丕 丕夭 丌賳 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴乇丿賴 賵 倬蹖鈥屫ж� 亘賵丿賲 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 蹖丕賮鬲賲
[ 亘乇丕蹖 賲孬丕賱 趩蹖夭 丿讴丕乇鬲蹖 亘賴 趩賴 賲毓賳丕爻鬲責 賵 丌蹖丕 亘賴 噩丕蹖 thing 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇� 賵丕跇賴鈥屰� 賴賲 丕乇夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 賯乇丕乇 丿丕丿責 ]
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禺亘 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丕賵氐丕賮 亘丕 趩賳丿亘丕乇賴鈥屫堌з嗃� 爻毓蹖 讴乇丿賲 丕夭 賲鬲賳 亘賴乇賴 亘亘乇賲 賵 丕蹖賳讴賴 賱丕丕賯賱 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賮丕賴蹖賲蹖 讴賴 跇賵賱蹖丕 讴乇蹖爻鬲賵丕 亘丕乇賴丕 丕夭 丌賳 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴乇丿賴 賵 倬蹖鈥屫ж� 亘賵丿賲 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 蹖丕賮鬲賲
April 13, 2013
A slight book, but one with touches of grace and sleights of hand that might be charming, especially if you're already into 's project as a whole or if you're interested in a good round of thinking on sleep. I found charming his description of sleeping with another person:
If that's not a quiet moment of desperate, cleaving beauty I don't know what is.
Sleeping together opens up nothing less than the possibility of penetrating into the most intimate part of the other, namely, precisely into his or her sleep. The happy, languid sleep of lovers who sink down together prolongs their loving spasm into a long suspense, into a pause held at the limits of the dissolution and disappearance of their very harmony: intermingled, their bodies insidiously disentangle, however intertwined they can sometimes remain until the end of sleep, until the instant joy returns to them as renewed for having been forgotten, eclipsed during the time of their sleep, where their agile bodies surface again after having been drowned at the bottom of the waters they themselves poured out.
If that's not a quiet moment of desperate, cleaving beauty I don't know what is.
February 2, 2021
亘丕 丕賳丿讴 丿丕賳卮蹖 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴 賵 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲 賲鬲乇賲貙 丕賳丿讴 賱匕鬲蹖 丕夭 亘丕夭蹖 亘丕 讴賱賲丕鬲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘乇丿賲 賵 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 倬乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 亘丕夭蹖 賴丕爻鬲貙 噩丿丕蹖 丕夭 丌賳 卮丕蹖丿 亘鬲賵丕賳賲 亘诏賲 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 卮丕蹖丿 丿乇讴 賲乇诏 乇賵 亘乇丕賲 丌爻賵賳 鬲乇 讴乇丿賴 賵 禺賵丿 亘賴 禺賵丕亘 乇賮鬲賳 蹖丕 賮乇賵 乇賮鬲賳 賵 賲賮賴賵賲卮 乇賵 亘乇丕賲 卮乇丨 丿丕丿
丕夭 賳馗乇 丨噩賲蹖 讴鬲丕亘 爻亘讴蹖賴 鄯郯 氐賮丨賴 賴爻鬲 賵 丕蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 賳賲蹖卮賴 丕夭 賳馗乇 賲賮賴賵賲蹖 賳蹖夭 讴鬲丕亘 爻亘讴蹖 亘丕卮賴貙 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿賲 讴賴 亘丕 讴丕賲賱 鬲乇 卮丿賳 賲胤丕賱毓丕鬲賲 丿乇 夭亘丕賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴貙 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 賳蹖夭 亘禺賵丕賳賲.
丿賵 賮氐賱 丕賵賱 卮丕蹖丿 卮賲丕 乇賵 爻乇丿乇诏賲 讴賳丿 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 趩賴 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿貙 丕賲丕 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 丿爻鬲鬲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賵 丿乇 爻讴賵鬲蹖 賲鬲賮讴乇丕賳賴 亘賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕丿丕賲賴 禺賵丕賴蹖丿 丿丕丿 賵 亘丕夭 賴賲 爻乇丕睾 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖乇賵蹖丿.
丕夭 賳馗乇 丨噩賲蹖 讴鬲丕亘 爻亘讴蹖賴 鄯郯 氐賮丨賴 賴爻鬲 賵 丕蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 賳賲蹖卮賴 丕夭 賳馗乇 賲賮賴賵賲蹖 賳蹖夭 讴鬲丕亘 爻亘讴蹖 亘丕卮賴貙 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿賲 讴賴 亘丕 讴丕賲賱 鬲乇 卮丿賳 賲胤丕賱毓丕鬲賲 丿乇 夭亘丕賳 賮乇丕賳爻賴貙 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 賳蹖夭 亘禺賵丕賳賲.
丿賵 賮氐賱 丕賵賱 卮丕蹖丿 卮賲丕 乇賵 爻乇丿乇诏賲 讴賳丿 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 趩賴 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿貙 丕賲丕 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 丿爻鬲鬲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賵 丿乇 爻讴賵鬲蹖 賲鬲賮讴乇丕賳賴 亘賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕丿丕賲賴 禺賵丕賴蹖丿 丿丕丿 賵 亘丕夭 賴賲 爻乇丕睾 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖乇賵蹖丿.
December 8, 2013
Perhaps this book gets lost in translation, but it felt like the ramblings of a crazy English major obsessed with beautiful and lyrical descriptions of sleep rather than a text which philosophically deconstructs the idea of sleep, which is what I was hoping for (and what I was lead to believe from the blurb).
"God must have slept, on the first night, for without that he could not the next day have differentiated the rest of his work."
Sure, it sounds nice and interesting, but Nancy doesn't talk any more about this! Just one sentence, and then he goes on to talk about how this one sentence justifies his idea that sleep is "divine".
Another excerpt:
"Dream like waking, similar to it, and dream as waking. Dream in place of waking. The daydream already shapes sleep in broad daylight, sleep in the midst of waking. The wakefulness of waking lets itself go."
When I read this part, I really felt frustrated at the translation (or the author - whoever's fault it is). To me personally I think a good philosophical text explains its ideas as clearly as possible. This language is superfluous and ridiculously poetic and does not help to convey the ideas in the text at all, rather it inhibits them!
Finally, this example:
"...it can spread like a lazy painting slowly worked into the black canvas displayed at the bottom of sleep: a hazy or Fauvist painting, pointillist or hyperrealist, broad washes and negligent brushstrokes, motionless in movement, the image shaking, we guess the shot was taken using an array of lenses too complicated for its machinery to be dismantled, but whose presence we sense is quite close, a copper and ebony apparatus loaded with enlarging and distorting lenses, magnifying glasses and beveled mirrors, a cinematographic device without motor but endowed with zoom lenses and dollies and booms stacked onto each other and moving effortlessly, with no hint of the space in which they move."
That's one sentence.
"God must have slept, on the first night, for without that he could not the next day have differentiated the rest of his work."
Sure, it sounds nice and interesting, but Nancy doesn't talk any more about this! Just one sentence, and then he goes on to talk about how this one sentence justifies his idea that sleep is "divine".
Another excerpt:
"Dream like waking, similar to it, and dream as waking. Dream in place of waking. The daydream already shapes sleep in broad daylight, sleep in the midst of waking. The wakefulness of waking lets itself go."
When I read this part, I really felt frustrated at the translation (or the author - whoever's fault it is). To me personally I think a good philosophical text explains its ideas as clearly as possible. This language is superfluous and ridiculously poetic and does not help to convey the ideas in the text at all, rather it inhibits them!
Finally, this example:
"...it can spread like a lazy painting slowly worked into the black canvas displayed at the bottom of sleep: a hazy or Fauvist painting, pointillist or hyperrealist, broad washes and negligent brushstrokes, motionless in movement, the image shaking, we guess the shot was taken using an array of lenses too complicated for its machinery to be dismantled, but whose presence we sense is quite close, a copper and ebony apparatus loaded with enlarging and distorting lenses, magnifying glasses and beveled mirrors, a cinematographic device without motor but endowed with zoom lenses and dollies and booms stacked onto each other and moving effortlessly, with no hint of the space in which they move."
That's one sentence.
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July 6, 2010Wow.
October 30, 2021
"But into the night, as into sleep, we do not go with our eyes closed. When our eyes are closed, sleep has already won the sleeper. But the instant just before, when eyelids have slipped over our eyes and they for one moment have remained seers behind their curtain and through the darkness spread everywhere in what we call the bedroom, that is the vault, the curving dome that seals space from sleep by separating it from the celestial vaults themselves - eyelids, bedroom, 'canopy,' sublunary world, world of beneath the lids, of ceilings and sheets, world of beneath, crypt hidden to itself - at that instant the gaze has seen the night into which it is entering. What it saw was nothing but the absence of all vision and all visibility. Even that, it saw."
A beautiful collision of prose and philosophy in Nancy's analysis of quite literally the fall of sleep, the way in which we get to sleep. This work is beautiful and striking, and Nancy's writing has an impressive way of using simple words to render intensely complex processes. Just an amazing little book.
A beautiful collision of prose and philosophy in Nancy's analysis of quite literally the fall of sleep, the way in which we get to sleep. This work is beautiful and striking, and Nancy's writing has an impressive way of using simple words to render intensely complex processes. Just an amazing little book.
September 29, 2020
丌賵丕乇賽 禺賵丕亘鈥� 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й� 禺丕氐 賵 睾乇蹖亘 跇丕賳鈥撡勝堏� 賳丕賳爻蹖 丕爻鬲: 睾乇蹖亘 賴賲 亘賴鈥� 賲毓賳丕蹖 毓噩蹖亘 蹖丕 卮诏賮鬲 賵 賴賲 亘賴鈥� 賲毓賳丕蹖 亘蹖诏丕賳賴 賵 賳丕丌卮賳丕. 賳孬乇 卮丕毓乇丕賳丞 丕賵 亘丕 倬蹖卮蹖賳賴鈥屬囏й� 賮讴乇蹖 讴賴 賴賲賵丕乇賴 丕夭 丌乇丕蹖 讴丕賳鬲貙 乇賵丕賳讴丕賵蹖 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 亘賴鈥屫蒂堌� 賱丕讴丕賳蹖貙 賵丕爻丕夭蹖 丿乇蹖丿丕 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賴爻鬲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж驰� 賴丕蹖丿诏乇 丕賱賴丕賲 賲蹖鈥屭屫必� 亘賴 爻乇丕睾 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 乇賮鬲賴 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 讴賲鈥屫� 丿乇 賮賱爻賮賴 丕夭 丌賳 亘丨孬蹖 亘賴鈥� 賲蹖丕賳 丌賲丿賴 亘丕卮丿: 禺賵丕亘.
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April 26, 2016
"migrating birds at night are thrown off course by intense halo of light that big cities project into sky: they are ready to go sleep anywhere, thinking they have reached sunny climes."
October 3, 2021
'Dormir ensemble n'ouvre rien de moins que la possibilit茅 de p茅n茅trer au plus intime de l'autre, 脿 savoir pr茅cis茅ment dans son sommeil. Le sommeil heureux, alangui, des amants qui sombrent ensemble prolonge leur spasme amoureux jusque dans un long suspens, dans un point d'orgue tenu jusqu'aux limites de la dissolution et de la dispartition de leur accord m锚me : m锚l茅s, leurs corps se d茅m锚lent insidieusement, quelque entrelac茅s qu'ils puissent rester parfois jusqu'au terme du sommeil, jusqu'au moment o霉 la joie leur reviendra comme renouvl茅e d'avoir 茅t茅 oubli茅e, 茅clips茅e le temps de leur somme, et o霉 leurs corps agiles feront 脿 nouveau surface apr猫s avoir 茅t茅 noy茅s au fond des eaux par eux-m锚mes r茅pandues.'
May 12, 2022
鈥淓l dormir juntos no abre otra cosa que la posibilidad de penetrar en lo m谩s 铆ntimo del otro, a saber, justamente en su sue帽o. El sue帽o dichoso y l谩nguido de los amantes que se hunden juntos en 茅l prolonga su espasmo amoroso en un largo suspenso, en un punto culminante mantenido hasta los l铆mites de la disoluci贸n y la desaparici贸n de su propio acuerdo: mezclados, sus cuerpos se desenredan insidiosamente, por muy entrelazados que puedan permanecer en ocasiones hasta el final del dormir鈥�
鈥淓l dormir juntos equivale a compartir una inercia, una fuerza igual que mantiene juntos los dos cuerpos en su navegaci贸n鈥�
鈥測 que, semejante a todo durmiente, ha conocido la eternidad: el reverso del tiempo鈥�.
鈥淓l dormir juntos equivale a compartir una inercia, una fuerza igual que mantiene juntos los dos cuerpos en su navegaci贸n鈥�
鈥測 que, semejante a todo durmiente, ha conocido la eternidad: el reverso del tiempo鈥�.
February 24, 2024
This book is so relaxing.
March 12, 2023
Forget what the point was about sleep, but I absolutely love how it was written.
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