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- The Disavowed Community
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Commonalities
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- pp. vii-xii
- Translator's Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxvii
- 1. "Community, Number"
- pp. 1-7
- 2. Beyond the Political
- pp. 8-16
- 3. The Heart or the Law
- pp. 17-23
- 4. The Consumed Community
- pp. 24-50
- 5. "Essentially That Which Escapes"
- pp. 51-76
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 79-80
- Series: Commonalities
- pp. 109-110
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823273881
Related ISBN(s)
9780823273843
MARC Record
OCLC
952973183
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2016-07-10
Language
English
Open Access
No