No theme has been more central to international philosophical
debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to
Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of
community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none
of these cases has the concept been examined from the perspective
of community's original etymological meaning: "cum munus." In
"Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community," Roberto Esposito
does just that through an original counter-history of political
philosophy that takes up not only readings of community by Hobbes,
Rousseau, Kant, Heidegger and Bataille, but also by Holderlin,
Nietzsche, Canetti, Arendt, and Sartre. The result of his
extraordinary conceptual and lexical analysis is a radical
overturning of contemporary interpretations of community. Community
isn't a property, nor is it a territory to be separated and
defended against those who do not belong to it. Rather, it is a
void, a debt, a gift to the other that also reminds us of our
constitutive alterity with respect to ourselves.
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