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

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...

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Published in:Hybris (Santiago) Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 21 - 38
Main Author: Edgar Straehle Porras
Format: Journal Article
Language:Spanish
Published: CENALTES 01-01-2012
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Summary: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
ISSN:0718-8382