For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The Inoperative Community

by Nancy, Jean-Luc (1991)

Key Passage

The political, if this word may serve to designate not the organization of society but the disposition of community as such, the destination of its sharing, must not be the assumption or the work of love or of death. (p.40)

Keywords

Philosophy, Community, Mythology, Communism, Literature, Love, Divinity, Individuality, Communication

Themes

The Inoperative Community, Nancy Citations

Links to Reference

Translator

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

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