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The Disavowed Community
ISBN: 9780823273874
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Communities; Communitarianism; Blanchot Maurice. Communauté inavouable.;

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.

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.