Description
Translated from the French by Pierre Joris. 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 theterms themselves. This meditation ranges from the problematic effects of a defect in language to actual historical experiments in 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.
