Ontology as Critique: On Jean-Luc Nancy's Inoperative Community

The following paper addresses itself to the question of ontology in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. In so doing it attempts to read Nancy's ontological project as a project of the deconstruction of structural forms of political violence. To this end, Nancy's notion of "inoperative communi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Research in phenomenology 2017-01, Vol.47 (1), p.108-123
Main Author: Acosta López, María del Rosario
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
History
Ontology
Philosophy
Politics
Violence
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The following paper addresses itself to the question of ontology in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. In so doing it attempts to read Nancy's ontological project as a project of the deconstruction of structural forms of political violence. To this end, Nancy's notion of "inoperative community" is brought into dialogue with Benjamin in order to show how, in Nancy's work, ontology operates not as the refusal of critique, but as its very condition.
ISSN:0085-5553
1569-1640
0085-5553
DOI:10.1163/15691640-12341358