Nancy, Blanchot: A Serious Controversy

by Leslie Hill

Book Overview

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (in The Inoperative Community) and the writer Maurice Blanchot (in The Unavowable Community) both thought it essential to rethink the fundamental basis of "community" as such. More...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178660888X
• ISBN13: 9781786608888
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"