W 1/23 Responding to Oppression, Articulating Particularity
Reading Assignment:
1. How does Nancy’s claim about the irreducible strangeness and singularity of other people relate to his claim that we don’t meet other people as such but only in particular states, moods, etc (p. 8)?
2. In order to explain what he means by ‘plural’, Nancy uses notions such as community, sociality, language, being with another, and sharing a world. If he is correct that we are irreducibly plural, how does this challenge the traditional notion of atomic individuality?
3. What does Nancy mean when he states that being singular plural is both indistinct and distinct (p. 28)?