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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Primavera

Jean Luc Nancy and the community: trascendence and immanence, ecstasy and death

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10359
Submitted
November 27, 2012
Published
2012-01-23

Abstract

The community is one of the recurring themes of political philosophy today, especially by streams as communitarianism. Jean Luc Nancy has problematized this notion and tried to free it from any trace of what might be a thought or identity politics. The community is not the affirmation of a being of us but the breakdown of any form of essentialism which entails the need to recognize the role of otherness and difference. Hence, linking the community to a finitude that relates to concepts such as death, “clinamen”, transcendence and especially the absence of Oeuvre