Nancy, Blanchot
A Serious Controversy
Seiten
2018
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-887-1 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-887-1 (ISBN)
This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the work of Nancy and Blanchot. It analyses in detail the underlying philosophical, political, literary, and religious implications of the often misrepresented debate between Blanchot and Nancy.
The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (in The Inoperative Community) and the writer Maurice Blanchot (in The Unavowable Community) both thought it essential to rethink the fundamental basis of “community” as such. More recently, Nancy has renewed the debate by unexpectedly attacking Blanchot’s account of community, claiming that it embodies a dangerously nostalgic desire for mythic and religious communion.
This book examines the history and implications of this controversy. It analyses in forensic detail Nancy’s and Blanchot’s contrasting interpretations of German Romanticism, and the work of Heidegger, Bataille, and Marguerite Duras, and examines closely their divergent approaches to the contradictory legacy of Christianity. At a time when politics are increasingly inseparable from a deep-seated sense of crisis, it provides an incisive account of what, in the concept of community, is thought yet crucially still remains unthought.
The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (in The Inoperative Community) and the writer Maurice Blanchot (in The Unavowable Community) both thought it essential to rethink the fundamental basis of “community” as such. More recently, Nancy has renewed the debate by unexpectedly attacking Blanchot’s account of community, claiming that it embodies a dangerously nostalgic desire for mythic and religious communion.
This book examines the history and implications of this controversy. It analyses in forensic detail Nancy’s and Blanchot’s contrasting interpretations of German Romanticism, and the work of Heidegger, Bataille, and Marguerite Duras, and examines closely their divergent approaches to the contradictory legacy of Christianity. At a time when politics are increasingly inseparable from a deep-seated sense of crisis, it provides an incisive account of what, in the concept of community, is thought yet crucially still remains unthought.
Leslie Hill is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His many publications include Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing (2012), Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (2010) The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Derrida (2007), Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (2001), Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (1997) and Beckett's Fiction (1990).
1. Community and its Discontents / 2. Shared Legacies / 3. Community, Sacrifice, Writing / 4. Dissenting Opinions / 5. From Myth to Religion to Politics / 6. Serious Controversy / Chronology / Bibliography / Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophical Projections |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78660-887-1 / 1786608871 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78660-887-1 / 9781786608871 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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