Unraveled Plot

Thinking Literature, Community, and Politics with Jean-Luc Nancy

AvAukje van Rooden

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Explores the connection between Jean-Luc Nancy's political works on community and his works on art and literature, thus providing not only a comprehensive introduction into Nancy’s work but also a broader examination of the social and political role of literature.What is the connection between the work of community and the work of literature? And in what way is literature implied in Jean-Luc Nancy's "inoperative" community? The Unraveled Plot investigates the relation between two domains that have only separately been addressed in the reception of Nancy's work: his political works on community on the one hand and his works on art and literature on the other. Lucidly traversing Nancy's entire oeuvre, Aukje van Rooden offers not only a comprehensive introduction into Nancy’s work but also a much broader reflection on the social and political role of literature. Situating Nancy's thought within a larger philosophical tradition leading from German Romanticism to contemporary social and political theory, she offers new insights, with and beyond Nancy, on the forming of communities and how literature can play a role.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9798855803938

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Aukje van Rooden is philosopher and literary theorist working in the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of, notably, Literature, Autonomy and Commitment and coeditor of Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy.

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"This is a book people will want to read. It fills a gap in the secondary literature on Nancy's work, which has tended to concentrate on his work as a political philosopher, first, and his work on art, second. Van Rooden takes seriously the work of thinking through the relations between politics, community, and literature—all three—in Nancy's work." — Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University, the State University of New York

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Abbreviations of Works by Jean-Luc NancyIntroduction: Literature, Community, and Politics1. The Romantic HeritageGerman RomanticismThe Romantic Notion of WorkThe Romantic Work as a Model Without ModelRomantic PoliticsThe Reverse Side of Romanticism (Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe)The Future Is Fragmentary2. The Work of CommunityMyth Interrupted (Nancy, Aristotle, Balzac)Myth Without MythologyRethinking CommunismRethinking Democracy (Nancy, Heidegger)Sharing Community in and as Literature (Nancy, Blanchot)The Fable Becoming the Real World (Nancy, Nietzsche, Lyotard)3. An Ontological PoeticsNancy's PoeticsRethinking Art (Nancy, Hegel)A Poetics of Everydayness (Nancy, Heidegger)Singular Plural PoeticsPoetic LanguageLanguage Beyond Language (Nancy, Derrida)4. Literature's Unworked ForceThe Scope and Limit of Nancy's PoeticsThe Distinctive Force of Literature (Nancy, Rancière)A Certain Way of SpeakingThe Exigency of "Lying" (Nancy, Arendt, Derrida)Literature as Unworked PerformativeThe Language of Fiction (Nancy, Blanchot)Being Responsible for LiteratureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex