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 "commu

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

A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Communism, Shatt

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.

In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other’s work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and p