"LESS THAN TOUCHING" NANCY'S PHILOSOPHY OF TOUCH FROM CORPUS TO NOLI ME TANGERE

The article deals with the philosophy of touch by Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the living legends of (post-)structuralism, whom Jacques Derrida in his book entitled On Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy baptized as "the greatest philosopher of touch." Nancy is known and renown as a philosopher who deals 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, it is precisely the issue of touch. Thus, the contribution focuses on the concept of touch as developed by Nancy from Corpus to Noli me tangere, namely, from the novel conception of body to the attempt of grasping the elusive object of touch via various philosophical, linguistic, and artistic reflections.