Immanent authority and the making of community
A Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian James (0009-0004-2960-5502, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 133-137 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Power (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2158379x.2013.774974 |
| OpenAlex | W1995736655 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The attempt to think community today is necessarily marked by the legacy of communal belonging understood as a sharing of identity and the mobilization of totalizing figures, a legacy which, according to Jean-Luc Nancy, is irrevocably tainted by the experience of German National Socialist community. Nancy’s analysis of the ‘nothing’ or absent essence of community understood ontologically as ‘being-with’ poses the challenge of how we may come to think and produce community outside of any totalizing logic of shared identity and in the absence of transcendent figures of authority. Elaborating further on Nancy’s thinking of eco-technicity, this response argues that the key problem facing the Immanent Authority project is that of the techniques or modes by which the ‘nothing’ of community may be realized
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · German · Identity (music · Nothing · Political science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |