Continental perspectives on community : human coexistence from unity to plurality / edited by Chantal Bax and Gert-Jan van der Heiden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bax, Chantal, editor.

Heiden, Gert-Jan van der, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities--Philosophy.

Communities.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 140 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon, Baldwin, Nancy, Agamben and Laruelle. Continental Perspectives on Community brings the different approaches of these thinkers into conversation with each other. It discusses the possibility of how the concept of community can extend beyond the one and beyond any sense of unity and totality. Additionally, the book shows how notion of community in plurality is at the heart of ethical and political reflections on alterity and race, of political philosophical reflections on the exception, and of ontological reflections on what it means for humans to be social. In this way, it offers an important contribution to the examination of how a community can be thought today. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on social, political, and cultural issues in Continental philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Thinking community today / Chantal Bax, Gert-Jan Van Der Heiden

On Open Community : Nancy, Laruelle, and the un-determination of the real / Ian James

Community and coexistence : Nancy and Derrida reading Hegel, separately and together / Joanna Hodge

A community that is not one : Nietzsche and the true voice of justice / Simon Glendinning

Communities of exception : Badiou And Agamben on Saint Paul / Gert-Jan Van Der Heiden

Arendtian beginning under the threat of violence / Sanem Yazicioglu

Dialectics, alterity, race / John Drabinski

Levinas on human sociality : beyond belonging and back again / Chantal Bax

Heidegger on being with others (in a place over time) / Sonia Sikka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Continental perspectives on community

ISBN:

9780367409555

0367409550

OCLC:

1110656226