Unavowable Community

Resumen del libro

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 does at the center of the emerging concern for a redefinition of politics and community. Readers of Blanchot know not to expect answers to the great questions that move his thought-rather, to live with the questions at the new level to which they have been raised in his discourse.

Biografía del autor

(1907-2003). Novelista y crítico literario. Al tiempo de la publicación de sus primeros relatos y novelas, a finales de los años cuarenta, Blanchot inicia una intensa actividad como crítico literario. Se trata de una escritura en la que Blanchot cuestiona permanentemente la posibilidad de la literatura, del escritor y de la obra, en una reflexión atravesada por las nociones de lo neutro, la soledad y la desobra .