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  1. Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community.Cillian Ó Fathaigh - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (3):491-506.
    This article argues that Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Friendship presents an implicit but significant critique of Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. In Blanchot’s text, the Other disrupts any sense of fusional or essentialist community. But Derrida criticises Blanchot for neglecting the need to negotiate my responsibility to infinite others. Derrida proposes a logic of the plus un, playing on this double meaning in French, where a need to count singularities (‘plus one’) disrupts the unity of community (‘no longer one’). For (...)
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