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The Impossible Possibility of Community.

Authors :
Rogozinski, Jacob
Source :
Research in Phenomenology. 2023, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p49-60. 12p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The author analyzes the deconstruction of the community carried out by Jean-Luc Nancy. For Nancy, the aim of the community has been historically accomplished by its self-destruction in the "work of death" of totalitarianism. This does not lead him to renounce the notion of community, like Derrida, but to highlight its paradoxical (im-)possibility. This is why Nancy proposes the concept of a "community without community" which would retain only the cum of the communitas , the with of being-with or being in-common. The author shows that this approach is subject to aporias. Indeed, Nancy wants to base being-with on an ontology of bodily touch. As he considers touching as distancing, displacement, he fails to understand the cum , that is to say the possibility of constituting a community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00855553
Volume :
53
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Research in Phenomenology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
162384983
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341515