The Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly ?communal.? The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an ?avowal? of membership in it a violation of the terms themselves. This meditation ranges from the problematic effects of a defect in language to actual historical experiments in community. The latter involves the life and work of George Bataille whose concerns (e.g. ?the negative community?) occupy the foreground of Blanchot?s discussion. Taking as his point of departure an essay by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Blanchot appears once again as one of the most attentive readers of what is truly challenging in French thought. His deep interest in the fiction of Marguerite Duras extends this inquiry to include ?The Community of Lovers,? emerging...
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