‘We have nothing in common’: Rethinking community and the mechanisms of creating a sense of belonging
We live in an era of crisis for community and commonality. Our present experience, as noted by Derrida, is that of an aporia at the heart of belonging. Yet, it is in the very space torn apart by this aporia that we can try to conceive of a new sense of community and transform our way of thi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2017/0353-57381701022S.pdf |
| Summary: | We live in an era of crisis for community and commonality. Our present
experience, as noted by Derrida, is that of an aporia at the heart of
belonging. Yet, it is in the very space torn apart by this aporia that we can
try to conceive of a new sense of community and transform our way of thinking
about being in common, which means the deconstruction of “Us” and of its
enunciation. In the light of such a deconstruction, what makes for effective
and powerful change in a struggle for emancipation, or in a protest for the
recognition of one or more rights, when carried out by a collective movement
or a group? This paper aims to answer that question, by seeking to
investigate the conceptual and theoretical mechanisms that make a plural
subject’s protest or claim concrete in its quest for justice and equality, in
the face of a growing and likewise concrete (or real) inequality. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |