De la métaphysique du « commun » au « comment vivre ensemble ». Jean-Luc Nancy et Roland Barthes sur la communauté
From the metaphysics of the commun to how to live together. Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes about community

Summary/Abstract: The importance of ideologies in many intellectual circles in France through the 20th century underwent a dramatic decline in the aftermath of May 1968 and later, by the end of the 1980s. French theory created a particular [different] way of writing about and reflecting upon the community and even the idea of communism. By the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the next decade, in this post-ideological historical moment, Roland Barthes on the one hand, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy on the other hand, published books or talked about community following two distinct approaches: Barthes had a rather practical viewpoint, relinquishing metaphysics in order to be able to “live together”, while Nancy’s approach skulked around the agony of the concept of community thought [considered] as absolute.

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