Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community-- book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy's early proposal for thinking an

A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Communism, Shatt

" . . . thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often p

The Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly "commu