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Based on Wittgenstein's assertion that the inner is directly related to the outer -and is specifically influenced by the community, or society, wishes to understand this society or community, that the self may be better understood.. This is as he also maintains, that the individual does in fact truly exist, for if not, accountability cannot be upheld. The concept of community as Wittgenstein saw it is exceedingly elusive, calling into play semantic reasoning for other possible meanings, of which the metaphor of the body politic is certainly not one of. To the end of sorting out Wittgenstein, looks at the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, who investigates the individual and his community, and who writes what not to consider in the interplay between the two. Amongst other ideas, Nancy is well disposed to Heidegger's thoughts on being-toward-death, and the shared finitude of Bataille's work. Considers Wittgenstein's community to be that which is composed of people in action, thus, composing the community, in a continual reflective process. Thus for Wittgenstein, the author conjectures, community is a process, an action, a kinetic existence. S. Fullmer

"This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon, Baldwin, Nancy, Agamben and Laruelle. Continental Perspectives on Community brings the different approaches of these thinkers into conversation with each other. It discusses the possibility of how the concept of community can extend beyond the one and beyond any sense of unity and totality. Additionally, the book shows how notion of community in plurality is at the heart of ethical and political reflections on alterity and race, of political philosophical reflections on the exception, and of ontological reflections on what it means for humans to be social. In this way, it offers an important contribution to the examination of how a community can be thought today. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on social, political, and cultural issues in Continental philosophy"--