Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community-- book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy's early proposal for thinking an

More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of ever

This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the work of N

The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an

This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequ

This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosop

Best known for his masterpiece Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original wor

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject. There are many books looking at forensic work in secure settings, such as prisons or hospitals, but v