Community in Question.
Failure of Communitarianism, Misery of Individualisms
and Community of Existence
Community in Question.
Failure of Communitarianism, Misery of Individualisms
and Community of Existence
Author(s): Szymon WróbelSubject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
Keywords: collective; dispositive of the persons; free association; the coming community
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Polish Sociological Review
- Issue Year: 194/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 227-247
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English