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UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY (Paperback, New edition)
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UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
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The Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and
possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community
of individuals that is truly “communal.” The problem, for
Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an
“avowal” of membership in it a violation of the terms
themselves. This meditation ranges from the problematic effects of
a defect in language to actual historical experiments in community.
The latter involves the life and work of George Bataille whose
concerns (e.g. “the negative community”) occupy the foreground
of Blanchot’s discussion. Taking as his point of departure an
essay by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Blanchot appears once
again as one of the most attentive readers of what is truly
challenging in French thought. His deep interest in the fiction of
Marguerite Duras extends this inquiry to include “The Community
of Lovers,” emerging from certain themes in Duras’ recit, The
Malady of Death. As Blanchot’s first direct treatment of a
subject that has long figured in or behind his work, this small but
highly concentrated book stands as an important addition to his own
contribution to literary, philosophical, social, and political
thought, figuring as it does at the center of the emerging concern
for a redefinition of politics and community. Readers of Blanchot
know not to expect answers to the great questions that move his
thought – rather, to live with the questions at the new level to
which they have been raised in his discourse.
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