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Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger”

7 March 2017 @ 16:00 - 17:30

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Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger” The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy cordially invites you for a talk by Ian James (Cambridge), “On open community” . Abstract: Published originally in 1986 Jean-Luc Nancy’s La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative community) has proved to be one of his most influential and controversial texts and has enjoyed a rich afterlife, most notably in the context of the response given by Maurice Blanchot in 1988 in La Communauté inavouable (The Unavowable Community) and two subsequent texts…
Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger”
Abstract: Published originally in 1986 Jean-Luc Nancy’s La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative community) has proved to be one of his most influential and controversial texts and has enjoyed a rich afterlife, most notably in the context of the response given by Maurice Blanchot in 1988 in La Communauté inavouable (The Unavowable Community) and two subsequent texts by Nancy which in turn respond to Blanchot, La Communauté affrontée in 2001 (The Confronted Community) and in 2014 La Communauté désavouée (The Disavowed Community). This paper poses the question of the ongoing stakes of Nancy’s original thinking of ‘inoperative community’ today, together with the thinking of ‘being-in-common’ that arises from it, and asks how the problems that have arisen in the wake of this thinking can help us to respond philosophically and politically to the resurgence of identitarian conceptions of community across the contemporary world. Moving alongside and then beyond Nancy, it argues for an understanding of a radically immanent ‘open community’ which would motivate a politics that would place itself in decisive opposition to such identitarian conceptions of community.
Date: March 7, room: E 2.62, time: 16:00-17:30.
Registration is not required but much appreciated through c.bax@ftr.ru.nl.
More information about the lecture series can be found here. Feel free to join us for these upcoming talks as well:
  • Mar 28: Christian Sternad (Leuven/Vienna), The 20th century as the struggle for community (E 2.62)
  • Apr 4: Joanna Hodge (Manchester), Jean-Luc Nancy on finite thinking, and finite history: Notes on being-in-common (E 3.29 - note room change)
  • Apr 11: Sanem Yazıcıoğlu (Tilburg/Istanbul), Arendtian beginning under the threat of violence (E 2.62)
  • May 2: Tina Chanter (Kingston), Who is the peasant woman? Gender and old shoes: Heidegger, Van Gogh and Rancière (E 3.29 - note room change)
  • May 9: John Drabinski (Amherst): Dialectics, Alterity, Race (E 2.51)
  • May: 16 Thomas Trezise (Princeton), First, second, third: On persons and community in Levinas (E 3.29 - note room change)

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7 March 2017
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Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger”

Abstract: Published originally in 1986 Jean-Luc Nancy’s La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative community) has proved to be one of his most influential and controversial texts and has enjoyed a rich afterlife, most notably in the context of the response given by Maurice Blanchot in 1988 in La Communauté inavouable (The Unavowable Community) and two subsequent texts by Nancy which in turn respond to Blanchot, La Communauté affrontée in 2001 (The Confronted Community) and in 2014 La Communauté désavouée (The Disavowed Community). This paper poses the question of the ongoing stakes of Nancy’s original thinking of ‘inoperative community’ today, together with the thinking of ‘being-in-common’ that arises from it, and asks how the problems that have arisen in the wake of this thinking can help us to respond philosophically and politically to the resurgence of identitarian conceptions of community across the contemporary world. Moving alongside and then beyond Nancy, it argues for an understanding of a radically immanent ‘open community’ which would motivate a politics that would place itself in decisive opposition to such identitarian conceptions of community.
Date: March 7, room: E 2.62, time: 16:00-17:30.
Registration is not required but much appreciated through c.bax@ftr.ru.nl.
More information about the lecture series can be found here. Feel free to join us for these upcoming talks as well:
  • Mar 28: Christian Sternad (Leuven/Vienna), The 20th century as the struggle for community (E 2.62)
  • Apr 4: Joanna Hodge (Manchester), Jean-Luc Nancy on finite thinking, and finite history: Notes on being-in-common (E 3.29 – note room change)
  • Apr 11: Sanem Yazıcıoğlu (Tilburg/Istanbul), Arendtian beginning under the threat of violence (E 2.62)
  • May 2: Tina Chanter (Kingston), Who is the peasant woman? Gender and old shoes: Heidegger, Van Gogh and Rancière (E 3.29 – note room change)
  • May 9: John Drabinski (Amherst): Dialectics, Alterity, Race (E 2.51)
  • May: 16 Thomas Trezise (Princeton), First, second, third: On persons and community in Levinas (E 3.29 – note room change)

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