Community

Summary

Dominique Pagani distinguishes community from society: community is narrower, and not every society is communal1. Drawing on the distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, he presents community as absolute spirit realised: a people as substance, a citizen as actual consciousness2. He returns several times to Antigone. In his view, it is not an individual who rises up against the city there, but one community against another: the family, founded on blood, against the city, whose bond is more spiritual. This corresponds to the passage from the genos, the clan, to the city34. Community preserves itself by consuming the separatism of families and creates itself in what it represses5. In Rousseau, Clarens and Julie embody an ideal community6. He also gives a warning: a community that is too homogeneous is exclusive, dreams of itself as aristocratic and decollectivises. For him, communitarianism is an abstract society that sets communities against one another in the street instead of forming a society78.

1. 1#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Mar 2016 · 2:16
2. 2#10.1 The eternal irony of the community22 Sept 2021 · 22:36
3. 3#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 27:00
4. 4A for Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 7:32
5. 5#10.1 The eternal irony of the community22 Sept 2021 · 52:33
6. 6W for Wolmar6 Jan 2015 · 5:16
7. 7#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Mar 2016 · 12:41
8. 8#15 Return to the logics of the subject23 Jul 2020 · 50:32

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