“Un meno che tocco”: la filosofia del tocco di Jean-Luc Nancy

Abstract

The article deals with the philosophy of touch by Jean-Luc Nancy, defined by Derrida as “the greatest philosopher of touch” in his book On touching: Jean-Luc Nancy. Nancy is known as a philosopher who dealt with a series of different phenomena, but if there is a fil rouge in his work, from the very first writings to the more recent works, then it is precisely the issue of touch. The paper focuses on the concept of touch as developed by Nancy from Corpus to Noli me tangere, from a conception of the body up to an attempt of grasping touch, which eventually paved the way to the emerging field of “haptic studies”.