{"product_id":"the-disavowed-community-2","title":"The Disavowed Community","description":"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 “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot’s text, Nancy’s new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot’s thinking, from Bataille’s “community of lovers” to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.","brand":"Jean-Luc Nancy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572310114486,"sku":"9780823273867","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_e2d85b46-11d0-48fc-9525-bfdec6158a58.jpg?v=1746711795","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-disavowed-community-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}