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The Disavowed Community / Jean-Luc Nancy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nancy, Jean-Luc, Author.
- Series:
- Commonalities (FUP)
- Commonalities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communitarianism.
- Communities.
- Georges Bataille.
- Marguerite Duras.
- Maurice Blanchot.
- avowal.
- communism.
- community.
- disavowal.
- number.
- politics.
- Local Subjects:
- Georges Bataille.
- Marguerite Duras.
- Maurice Blanchot.
- avowal.
- communism.
- community.
- disavowal.
- number.
- politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (141 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH- LANGUAGE EDITION
- TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
- 1. “COMMUNITY, NUMBER”
- 2. BEYOND THE POLITICAL
- 3. THE HEART OR THE LAW
- 4. THE CONSUMED COMMUNITY
- 5. “ESSENTIALLY THAT WHICH ESCAPES”
- CODA
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-7387-3
- OCLC:
- 954284855
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