The Inoperative Community
In this powerful work, Jean-Luc Nancy examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual. Contrary to popular Western notions of community, Nancy shows that it is neither a project of fusion nor production. Rather, he argues, community can be defined through the political nature of its...
In this powerful work, Jean-Luc Nancy examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual. Contrary to popular Western notions of community, Nancy shows that it is neither a project of fusion nor production. Rather, he argues, community can be defined through the political nature of its resistance against immanent power.
Jean-Luc Nancy, ancien professeur de philosophie a l'universite de Strasbourg de 1968 a 2004, egalement a San Diego, et professeur invit e a Berlin et Berkeley, proche de Jacques Derrida, a developpe une pensee postmoderniste dans plusieurs ouvrages analysant les enjeux lies au structuralisme, avec Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (L'Absolu litteraire, 1978 et Le Mythe nazi, 1991) et a...
Jean-Luc Nancy, ancien professeur de philosophie a l'universite de Strasbourg de 1968 a 2004, egalement a San Diego, et professeur invit e a Berlin et Berkeley, proche de Jacques Derrida, a developpe une pensee postmoderniste dans plusieurs ouvrages analysant les enjeux lies au structuralisme, avec Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (L'Absolu litteraire, 1978 et Le Mythe nazi, 1991) et avec Jean-Christophe Bailly (La Comparution, 1991). S'interessant a l'impact des images sur notre societe, il a publie egalement Evidence du film et Au fond des images.
Christopher Fynsk is Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Binghamton University. He is the author of "Language and Relation: . . . that there is language "(Stanford, 1996) and the editor of "Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics "by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (Stanford, 1998).