Disavowed Community

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.

About the author

Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century's foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Jean- Nancy, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc/ Armstrong Nancy
• Assisted by: Philip Armstrong (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780823273843
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7384-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Commonalities (FUP); Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous