Unavowable Community

by Maurice Blanchot

Book Overview

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. The latter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581771045
• ISBN13: 9781581771046
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"