The Inoperative Community Jean-Luc Nancy Edited by Peter Conner Foreword by Christopher Fynsk		$19.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-1924-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1924-5
In this powerful work, Jean-Luc Nancy examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual. Contrary to popular Western notions of community, Nancy shows that it is neither a project of fusion nor production. Rather, he argues, community can be defined through the political nature of its resistance against immanent power. Jean-Luc Nancy teaches at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg, France. Peter Conner is currently assistant professor of French at Barnard College. He is the author of Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative. 120 pages | 1991 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 76