“Communism without community”: notes on ontology, ethics and politics in the thinking of Jean-Luc Nancy

Abstract

The article establishes the coordinates of the problem of the common in the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy, trying in this way to offer the reader a diagram about a cardinal aspect of his philosophical work, even though it is not always approached from this angle. On this stage, the ontological problematic that passes through the thought of the common develops to arrive at an examination of the junction between the ethical and the political. The article concludes, after having thought about the disjunct character of the common, with an interpretative proposal about a politicity of existence that tries to compear at the reelaboration of an unfounded and abysmal concept of the political, that is, to an ethos of co-appearance to the relational and differential character of existence.