The Disavowed Community

Jean-Luc Nancy

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Disavowed Community

Jean-Luc Nancy
Translated by: Philip Armstrong

In the series Commonalities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823273874

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About this book

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community—a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy’s early proposal for thinking an “inoperative community”—The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchot’s text.

Author / Editor information

Nancy Jean-Luc :

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adèle Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham).Armstrong Philip :

Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews

—François Raffoul:
“This is a powerful and important book, in several respects: first, because this is Nancy’s first public engagement with Maurice Blanchot’s 1983 book The Unavowable Community, bringing to focus decades of research on this issue and shedding exciting new light on the relation between the two thinkers. Second, this work provides the latest elaborations by Jean-Luc Nancy on what has been his longstanding research on being-with and community, issues that have occupied him for the past thirty years. Finally, the analyses proposed are some of the most sophisticated that one can find in Nancy’s corpus. As such, they represent a significant contribution to philosophical work and research.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH- LANGUAGE EDITION Jean- Luc Nancy Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION Philip Armstrong Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. “COMMUNITY, NUMBER” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. BEYOND THE POLITICAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
3. THE HEART OR THE LAW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
4. THE CONSUMED COMMUNITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
5. “ESSENTIALLY THAT WHICH ESCAPES” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
CODA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: avowal; Georges Bataille; Maurice Blanchot; communism; community; disavowal; Marguerite Duras; number; politics

eBook

Published: September 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823273874