Original scientific paper

Dividing Nothing: Jean-Luc Nancy, Painting, Sense and Creation

Aleksandar Mijatović orcid.org/0000-0002-5575-0920 ; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

This paper discusses Jean-Luc Nancy’s conception of painting. According to Nancy, painting could not be properly understood relying on phenomenological notions such as representation, appearing, disclosure, or giving. Instead, Nancy relates painting with the ontological notions such as world, sense, and creation ex nihilo. Nevertheless, this relation is not a kind of “deductive inference” of the notion of painting from notions of world, sense and creation ex nihilo, but the notion of painting is defined through the concept of fragment. Therefore, the attempt of the paper is to draw dividing and connecting lines between the notion of fragment and Nancy’s essays on painting.

Keywords

Jean-Luc Nancy; painting; sense; creation ex nihilo; world; fragment; vestigium; distinct; Noli me tangere

Hrčak ID:

72747

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72747

Publication date:

25.7.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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