This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives), the author aims to bring literature and art into a philosophical examination of the paradoxical and complex idea of community.
Author(s): Zrinka Božić
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 174
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Dis-/Appearing Community: The Avant-Garde, Politics, and Literature
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Chapter 2: Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-Garde
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Chapter 3: Literary Communities and the Political
Futurism, Technology, and De-/Subjectification
Surrealism and Emancipation
Expressionism and Revolution
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Chapter 4: Experiencing Community: Theoretical Collectives and Circles
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Chapter 5: Totalitarian Subject(s) and Literature
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Chapter 6: Art Collective and the Politics of Anonymity
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Chapter 7: Conclusion
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Index
