For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

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, Communication

Themes

The Inoperative Community, Nancy Citations

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Translator

Connor, P.; Garbus, L.; Holland, M.; Sawhney, S.

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