For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The Inoperative Community

by Nancy, Jean-Luc (1991)

Key Passage

Community is given to us- or we are given and abandoned to the community: a gift to be renewed and communicated. it is not a  work to be done or  produced.  (p.35)

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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