The Disavowed Community
Synopsis
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.
- Copyright:
- 2016 Fordham University Press
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780823273867
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-04-14T21:05:43Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.