The Disavowed Community by Jean-Luc Nancy (Paperback Book)

Name: The Disavowed Community by Jean-Luc Nancy (Paperback Book)
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)\u2014a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on \""the inoperative community\""\u2014Nancy 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\n\nThe Disavowed Community\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the p;