Community in Question. Failure of Communitarianism, Misery of Individualisms and Community of Existence

• Authors: Szymon Wróbel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main task of the present paper is to rethink the very idea of community, in comparison with other terms that describe the human collectivity such as-people, society, population, free association, group, collective or aggregate. After analyzing three basic ways of thinking about community-the liberal one, communitarianist and the biopolitical paradigm, the author reconstructs the contemporary concepts of community, such as the “unavowable community” (Maurice Blanchot), “the inoperative community” (Jean-Luc Nancy), “community in question” (Jacques Derrida), “the coming community” (Giorgio Agamben), “a collective” (Bruno Latour), and communitas (Roberto Esposito). As the result of his analyzes the author infers the general conclusion, that what is at stake in philosophical discourse about communities is “conjuring up” or “designing” alternative ways of being, alternative ontologies of the social world.

Keywords

EN

collective; dispositive of the person; free association; the coming community; unavowable community

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 194
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 227-248

Dates

published

2016-06-28

Contributors

author

Szymon Wróbel

• Polish Academy of Sciences