The Disavowed Community

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.

Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780823273850

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2017

About the Author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universit? Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Coming; Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula; and, with Frederico Ferrari, Being Nude: The Skin of Images (all Fordham).

Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.