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Against a certain contemporary style of thinking that wishes to go beyond finitude entirely, I propose a finite praxis modeled after Jean-Luc Nancy’s finite thinking. I argue that the desire to immunize life against death by postponing indefinitely the moment of demise radically misunderstands the nature of death as a limit and the meaning of finitude thereby implied. Starting from the intuition developed by Simone de Beauvoir in  All Men Are Mortal  that the meaning of existence does not come from an extended future but from human relations, I subsequently turn to Jean-Luc Nancy’s ontology of the singular plural. Nancy arrives at this ontology by developing Heidegger’s concept of being-towards-death and Derrida’s notion of differance in such a way as to emphasize the inherently relational nature of existence. While finite existence is always singular for Nancy, it is also always exposed to and affected by all there is. A Nancyan ethics of finitude then, does not advocate that we limit or curtail our existence and its enjoyments, but rather that we experience the contingent or mortal nature of our existence in the full extent of its relationality.

JEAN-LUC NANCY’S ETHICS OF FINITUDE