This work represents the most capacious and compelling account to date of why and how Jean-Luc Nancy should be read as the foremost philosopher of our times. Hodge evinces a virtuoso command of the ins-and-outs of Nancy's challenging and complex set of writings, painstakingly working through the myriad changes and disparities between the various editions, translations and collections of his work to reveal the signal contributions, effective interruptions and radical revisions Nancy makes to the philosophical tradition. Correlatively, Hodge with a consummate mastery of that tradition, carefully and precisely unpacks the specific ways Nancy both borrows and departs from the work of Kant, Hegel, Husserl, and especially Heidegger. Staging these developments by way of a set of strategic dialogues between Nancy and various contemporaries (Derrida, Lévinas, Bataille, and Blanchot), Hodge magisterially foregrounds the urgency of such Nancean notions as excription, mitsein, comparution, partage, finitude, singularities, ecotechnics, and the “to come” of secular apocalypse for rethinking the very concepts of democracy, sovereignty, and sense itself whose very being are at stake in the current “fourfold” conjuncture of extermination, expropriation, simulation, and technicization. An impressively thought-provoking book!

Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor of Humanities, University of California, USA

The Singular Politics of Jean-Luc Nancy intertwines Nancy's ontology and his political philosophy. Bringing these two sides of Nancy's thought together, Hodge investigates almost every text Nancy has ever published. The Singular Politics of Jean-Luc Nancy is the most comprehensive study of Nancy's thought to date.

Leonard Lawlor, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University, USA