Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"-Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly's initial proposal to think community in terms of "number" or the "numerous," and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot's text, Nancy's new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot's thinking, from Bataille's "community of lovers" to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist.
A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.
| ISBN: | 9780823273850 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2016 |
| Author: | JeanLuc Nancy |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 144 pages |
| Series: | Commonalities |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Social and political philosophy Political science and theory |
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"-Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.
The Disavowed Community features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory
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The Disavowed Community was written by JeanLuc Nancy and published by Fordham University Press
The Disavowed Community has 144 pages
Yes it is part of Commonalities series
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