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Nancy, Blanchot - A Serious Controversy (Paperback)
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Nancy, Blanchot - A Serious Controversy (Paperback)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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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 recently, Nancy has renewed the debate by unexpectedly
attacking Blanchot's account of community, claiming that it
embodies a dangerously nostalgic desire for mythic and religious
communion. This book examines the history and implications of this
controversy. It analyses in forensic detail Nancy's and Blanchot's
contrasting interpretations of German Romanticism, and the work of
Heidegger, Bataille, and Marguerite Duras, and examines closely
their divergent approaches to the contradictory legacy of
Christianity. At a time when politics are increasingly inseparable
from a deep-seated sense of crisis, it provides an incisive account
of what, in the concept of community, is thought yet crucially
still remains unthought.
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