Democracy and Community Nancy Hardback Polity Press 9781509535347

Democracy and Community\nby Jean-Luc Nancy\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jean-Luc Nancy\nTitle: Democracy and Community\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political science and theory\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509535347\nISBN-10: 1509535349\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with Peter Engelmann, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy attempts to reframe community as central to a reconceptualization of politics and democracy. \nObserving that all our interactions are in some way shared experiences, Nancy demonstrates that a common sense of life precedes our.