“An infinite task at the heart of finitude”: Jean-Luc Nancy on Community and History
María Del Rosario Acosta López is currently associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. She has a PhD in philosophy from the Colombian National University, Bogota. She teaches and conducts research on Romanticism and German idealism, aesthetics and philosophy of art, and contemporary political philosophy. More recently, her work has also moved into the areas of memory, trauma, and representations of violence with a focus on Colombian and Latin-American contexts. She is the author of a book on silence and art in German Romanticism (2006) and a monograph on Friedrich Schiller and the political sublime (2008), and she has edited and coedited volumes and special issues on Hegel (2008), Schiller (2008), Paul Klee (2009), aesthetics and politics (2010), recognition theories (2010), contemporary political philosophy (2013), law and violence (2014), and art and memory in Colombia (2016). She is currently working on the manuscript of her next book, Grammars of Listening: Philosophical Approaches to Trauma and Memory.
María del Rosario Acosta López; “An infinite task at the heart of finitude”: Jean-Luc Nancy on Community and History. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 November 2017; 17 (3): 21–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.17.3.0021
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