The Inoperative Community
by Nancy, Jean-Luc (1991)
Key Passage
In his sense, Bataille is without doubt the one who experienced first, or most acutely the modern experience of community as neither a work to be produced, nor a lost communion, but rather as space Itself, and the spacing of the experience of the outside, of the outside-of-self. (p.19)
Keywords
Philosophy, Community, Mythology, Communism, Literature, Love, Divinity, Individuality, CommunicationLinks to Reference
Translator
Connor P, Garbus L, Holland M, Sawhney SCitation
Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Inoperative Community. Edited by Peter Connor, Translated by Peter Connor et al., University of Minnesota Press, 1991. Page cited: p.19.
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