Unavowable Community

Name: Unavowable Community
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ISBN: 9781581771046

ISBN-10: 1581771045

ISBN-13: 9781581771046

Edition: 2009

Authors: Maurice Blanchot

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The Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly "communal." The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an "avowal" of membership in it a violation of the terms themselves. This meditation ranges from the problematic effects of a defect in language to actual historical experiments in community. As Blanchot's first direct treatment of a subject that has long figured in or behind his work, this small but highly concentrated book stands as an important addition to his own contribution to literary, philosophical, social, and political thought, figuring as it…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 90
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Maurice Blanchot, 1907 - Novelist and critic Maurice Blanchot was born in 1907. Some of his works in translation include "Death Sentence" (1978), "The Gaze of Orpheus" (1981), "Madness of the Day" (1988), "The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me" (1993), all of which were translated by Lydia Davis, and "Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him" (translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, 1987).