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1  1 Lecture given at the ‘Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy’ conference, organized in Oxford in March 2019 by Marie Chabbert and Nikolas Deketelaere; the initial version is forthcoming in the conference proceedings.

2  2 Octavio Paz, ‘A Tale of Two Gardens’, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957–1987, ed. and tr. Eliot Weinberger, New York: New Directions, 1987, p. 295. Praise be to Hélène, to a degree commensurate with the revelation of this face. [TR: I have slightly modified the translation. The original reads: ‘la otra cara del ser,/la vacía,/el fijo resplandor sin atributos’. Weinberger translates the second line as ‘the feminine void’.]

3  3 Paul Valéry, Cahiers II, Paris, Gallimard, coll. “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade,” 1974, p.1533. [TR: My translation.]

4  4 Ibid., p.1352.

5  5 Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility, tr. Hans Jonas and Davis Herr, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 11. [TR: I have modified the translation to bring it more into line with Nancy’s French version, which runs thus: ‘d’assurer la permanence d’une vie authentiquement humaine sur terre’.] More than twenty years ago, Élisabeth de Fontenay formulated very nicely that which prevents us from relating to authenticity: ‘The lack of criteria compels us to respond in the absence of all points of reference, to maintain this empty demand that precedes the subject and exceeds all authority’ (‘Quelque chose comme du donné . . .’, Paris, Autrement, série ‘Morales’, no. 14, ‘La Responsabilité’, 1994).

6  6 [TR: Nancy, The Creation of the World or Globalization, tr. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007, pp. 54–5, tr. mod.]