
The Unraveled Plot
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Aukje van Rooden is philosopher and literary theorist working in the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of, notably, Literature, Autonomy and Commitment and coeditor of Re-treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Abbreviations of Works by Jean-Luc Nancy
Introduction: Literature, Community, and Politics
1. The Romantic Heritage
German Romanticism
The Romantic Notion of Work
The Romantic Work as a Model Without Model
Romantic Politics
The Reverse Side of Romanticism (Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe)
The Future Is Fragmentary
2. The Work of Community
Myth Interrupted (Nancy, Aristotle, Balzac)
Myth Without Mythology
Rethinking Communism
Rethinking Democracy (Nancy, Heidegger)
Sharing Community in and as Literature (Nancy, Blanchot)
The Fable Becoming the Real World (Nancy, Nietzsche, Lyotard)
3. An Ontological Poetics
Nancy's Poetics
Rethinking Art (Nancy, Hegel)
A Poetics of Everydayness (Nancy, Heidegger)
Singular Plural Poetics
Poetic Language
Language Beyond Language (Nancy, Derrida)
4. Literature's Unworked Force
The Scope and Limit of Nancy's Poetics
The Distinctive Force of Literature (Nancy, Rancière)
A Certain Way of Speaking
The Exigency of "Lying" (Nancy, Arendt, Derrida)
Literature as Unworked Performative
The Language of Fiction (Nancy, Blanchot)
Being Responsible for Literature
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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