Jean-Luc Nancy

In the essay “Existence and Death,” Alain Badiou presents a critique of what he calls “ante-predicative” theories of death. These theories secretly elevate death into a constitutive power lying beneath or beyond determinate beings. Whether in the guise of Bergsonian life, Heideggerian finitude, Sartrean nothingness, or Deleuzian becoming, death ceases to be a simple limit…