The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

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.

Extensively explores the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics Focuses on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives that emerged and then disappeared Brings literature and art into a philosophical examination of the idea of community

Auteur

Zrinka Bozic is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include narrative theory, intersections between literature and philosophy, the position of literature and literary theory in relation to politics, avant-garde theory and practice, theories of representation and problems of testimony.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

1. The Dis-/Appearing Community: The Avant-Garde, Politics, and Literature.- 2. Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-Garde.- 3. Literary Communities and the Political.- 4. Experiencing Community: Theoretical Collectives and Circles.- 5. Totalitarian Subject(s) and Literature.- 6. Art Collective and the Politics of Anonymity.- 7. Conclusion.