100 NAN 2

Nada y más común que ser: es la evidencia de la existencia. nada Y menos común que el ser: es la evidencia de la comunidad. una y otra, puestas en evidencia del pensamiento pero —no filosofías de la evidencia.
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Lo en juego ()el envite) de lo en común. Pensar esto, sin tregua, eso es la «filosofía» —Por lo que de ella queda en su fin, Si ella queda en común—, eso es política, es arte, o lo que queda de él, es andar por la calle, es pasar las fronteras, es fiesta y duelo, es estar en La Brecha, en un compartimiento de tren, es a ver cómo el capital capitaliza lo común y disuelve el en, es preguntar siempre lo que quiere decir «revolución», Lo que quiere vivir revolución, es resistencia, es existencia.

Pbbbbbt. (That's a farting noise.) This is about as low as it's possible for me to score a book when I agree with virtually everything in it (oh important caveat! everything I understood). But the thing with that is, Jean-Luc Nancy, could you say anything more boring (than the stuff I understood)??? Humans desire community? And this was a big part of why communism was appealing? But it didn't quite deliver in practice? Farting noise. And then, I dunno, there is a lot of deeply insular continental philosophy stuff (I mean not just abstruse or poststructural or whatever, I mean highly technical points about small dark corners of technical systems where Heidegger's concept y addresses Husserl's problem x but in turn raises problem z that can only be addressed by Georges Bataille, the master of life and death. I haven't read Bataille, but I always had the idea he was kind of cool, kind of a freak, and Nancy makes him sound like a truly obnoxious fuck, spurious in the scholastic as opposed to the mystic mould, and not even fun at parties. Oh, one thing I did get out of this was a fairly strong and bracing rejection of Sartre's (yes, occasionally insufferable) ideas about existential authenticity being rooted in the need to take action to retain or achieve individual self-respect in the face of an unjust world--Nancy sees the only solutions to oppression as collective ones, existentialism as essentially (I think, though he doesn't say it right out) aristocratic and evil, and while that's so obviously simplistic (perhaps motivating some of the more obscurantist features of his work), I agree to a certain extent. ( )

I have no idea how to rate this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially Nancy's assertion that a community is embodied by its (to put it too simplistically) opening out and openness to the world, instead of an attempt to remain insular and defined by something other than said openness. ( )