Jean-Luc Nancy

The Inoperative Community

Individual is merely the residue of the experience of the dissolution of community.

Still, one cannot make the world with simple atoms... There has to be an inclination, or an inclining, from one towards the other, of one by the other, or from one to the other.

Community [...] is what happens to us - question, waiting, event, imperative - in the wake of society.

Community is what takes place always through others and for others.

A community is the presentation to its members of their mortal truth.

Finitude compears.

Compearance is of a more originary order than that of the bond. It does not set itself up, it does not establish itself, it does not emerge among already given subjects (objects). It consists in the appearance of the between as such you and I (between us) - a formula in which the and does not imply juxtaposition but exposition. [exposition - def. A setting forth of meaning or intent.]

You (are/and/is) (entirely other than) I.
-or-
You shares me.

Community is made of the interruption of singularities, or of the suspension that singular beings are.

We can only go farther.