num_pages: 224
description: In this powerful work, Jean-Luc Nancy examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual. Contrary to popular Western notions of community, Nancy shows that it is neither a project of fusion nor production. Rather, he argues, community can be defined through the political nature of its resistance against immanent power.
language: English
title: The Inoperative Community
titlecomplete: The Inoperative Community
genres: Sociology, Theory, Philosophy, France, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 229
publisher: University of Minnesota Press