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A 10 page research paper/essay in which the writer gives a personal interpretation of topics within Jean-Luc Nancy's text Inoperative Community. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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was first published in 1983. As this suggests, this text, which was published in 1991, reflects the world of the 1980s and early 1990s. Nancy, in presenting the way in
which he envisions "community," indicates that, throughout history, generations of people have their lives and their deaths within the context of their communities. By being members of a viable community,
they could imagine their lives, as they contributed to that community and supported it, as having meaning and they, likewise, imagined their deaths as having meaning by being "reabsorbed...[within] a
community, yet to come" (Nancy 13). Yet, Nancy goes on to argue that this concept is no longer possible due to the loss of the traditional sense of community.
The way in which Nancy envisions "community" is opposed to what he terms "immanent forms of community" (Vermeulen 95). "Immanent" refers to qualities that are inherent in the noun being
described; something that is indwelling; and, in this case, Nancy is referring to the tendency of modern communities to establish their own norms and social values without being influenced by
factors external to that community (Vermeulen 95). The way in which this occurs, Nancy specifies, is through the structure provided by "myth," which refers to the ways in which a
community images its purpose and legitimacy (Vermeulen 95). Nancy indicates that modern communities exist in the "interrupt of myth," which is a term he originated rather than use
Batailles term, the "absence of myth" (Salama 250). This is because Nancy does not regard myth as "suppressed," but rather simply "suspended or interrupted" within the context of modern
society (Nancy 47). What Nancy appears to be indicating in his discussion of the interruption of myth is that myth no longer provides the same motivation force that it
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