{"product_id":"the-intruder-9781531506186","title":"The Intruder","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous complications followed, including more surgeries and lymphatic cancer. The procedure and illnesses he endured revealed to him, in a more visceral way than most of us ever experience, the strangeness of bodily existence itself and surviving the stranger within him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring this same period, Europe began closing its borders to those seeking refuge from war and poverty. Alarmed at this trend and drawn to a highly intimate form of strangeness with which he had been living for years, Nancy set out in \u003ci\u003eThe Intruder\u003c\/i\u003e to articulate how intrusion--whether of a body or a border--is not antithetical to one's identity but constitutive of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2004, Claire Denis adapted \u003ci\u003eThe Intruder\u003c\/i\u003e into a film already hailed among the most important of our century. This edition includes Nancy's and Denis's accounts of turning philosophy into film and the text of a shorter collaboration between the two of them. Throughout, Nancy and Denis push us to recognize that to truly welcome strangers means a constant struggle against exoticism, enforced assimilation, and confidence in our own self-identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531506186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Jean-Luc Nancy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43972040753333,"sku":"9781531506186","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b56c738c-7ac2-4449-89ba-b5738f99ebd1.jpg?v=1713281432","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-intruder-9781531506186","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}