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The Impossible Possibility of Community.
- Source :
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Research in Phenomenology . 2023, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p49-60. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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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]
- Subjects :
- *COMMUNITIES
*POSSIBILITY
*TOTALITARIANISM
*PHYSICAL contact
*ONTOLOGY
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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