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Jean-Luc Nancy was born in 1940 in Bordeaux and graduated in Philosophy in 1962. He taught for a time in Colmar, and in 1968 he took up an assistant position at the Institute of Philosophy in Strasbourg. In 1973 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Kant, under the supervision of Paul Ricoeur.
In the 1970s and 80s he was a visiting professor at universities around the world. His international reputation grew, and he was invited to be a cultural delegate for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Nancy had to take a break from his career to undergo a heart transplant. He stopped teaching and participating in conferences, but he never stopped writing. Today he is still an active philosopher, speaking all over the world at many philosophical congresses.
He still teaches Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg.