Abstract
This paper explores the encounter in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) between two traditions important for aesthetics, the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724- 1804), and the reinvention of phenomenology by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). It marks the importance for Nancy's readings of a disruption of the notions of ”world” and ”worldhood” in the writings of Nietzsche (1844-1900). It traces the arrival in Nancy's writings of a neologism, ”excription,” which marks up an effect of writing taken to its limit. Thereby the Husserlian thematics of sense are put in question, and Nancy reconfigures Kant's transcendental aesthetics, concerning space and time, as a thematisation of place and rhythm, body and gravity. In the paper, the excription of gravity and body are considered, with those of place and rhythm held over for another occasion.
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