Community and Togetherness after the Non-sharable
Community and Togetherness after the Non-sharable

Summary/Abstract: The following text tries to analyze and discuss the possibilities of talking about togetherness and community after the 20th century's understanding of collective power. How are we to envision community as a configuration around the negative and weak concepts of secret, absence and lack? Togetherness has to be thought outside essences and properties, following the theories of inter-subjectivity as the bare interval between fragments of stories and miss-recognitions in the interplay between self and the other. Can we talk about a form of community based on what we do not share or have in common, a togetherness defined as the empty wound of history? Why has the bond model of community been replaced by an interruption model of communitas? These are the general questions that this paper tries to address by accepting the impossibility of inquiring the world otherwise than a with-world which is always already an inherited world.

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