The Disavowed Community

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, French, European, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Political
Cover of the book The Disavowed Community by Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy ISBN: 9780823273867
Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: Fordham University Press Language: English
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
ISBN: 9780823273867
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Fordham University Press

Cover of the book Language, Eros, Being by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book The Helmholtz Curves by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Deep Time, Dark Times by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Their Other Side by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book What Fanon Said by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book The Work of Difference by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book The Sense of Semblance by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Flashpoints for Asian American Studies by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Levinas and the Night of Being by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Lincoln Revisited by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Home, Uprooted by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude by Jean-Luc Nancy
Cover of the book Thresholds of Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy