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The Greek and the Jewish responses both affirmed a humanity freed from myth but put forward two very different conceptions of autonomy: on the one hand, the infinite autonomy of knowledge, of logos, and on the other, the paradoxical autonomy of a heteronomy guided by a hidden god. The first excluded the second while simultaneously absorbing and dominating it; the second withdrew into itself and its condition of exclusion and domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow could the long and terrible history of the hatred of the Jew, masking a self-loathing, be generated by these intrinsically contradictory beginnings? 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As long as it is ours, it is the act of an infinite emergence that is all the sense there is: a sense that incessantly goes from skin to skin and is itself never enveloped by anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe texts in this volume are all oriented by the concern for what is currently happening to us – we, late humanoids – when we arrive at an extremity of our history, whether this extremity should turn out to be a stage, a rupture, or quite simply a last breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fragile Skin of the World\u003c\/em\u003e explores these themes with profound philosophical insight, inviting readers to contemplate the delicate nature of our shared existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000781258988,"sku":"9781509549160","price":77.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12513853482725.jpg?v=1763304194"},{"product_id":"an-all-too-human-virus-by-jean-luc-nancy-9781509550227","title":"An All-Too-Human Virus","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread through social interaction. 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