The Disavowed Community

By Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823273849
• ISBN13: 9780823273843
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"