Jean-Luc Nancy (Author) Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universit¿arc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature ; The Possibility of a World ; The Banality of Heidegger ; The Disavowed Community ; and, with Ad¿ Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham). Jeff Fort (Translator) Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, and the translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.