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The Anonymous Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Helen Petrovsky
Helen Petrovsky*
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Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Abstract

The paper explores the non-institutional potential of the concept of community as it has been formulated in contemporary French philosophy. Special attention is given to historical experience, particularly in a globalizing world. Fantasies of the historical which attest to such experience are treated as constitutive of an anonymous community defined neither by a fixed identity nor by a given substance. Despite its anonymity, community calls for articulation and translation, producing various ‘as-if presentations’, to remember the Kantian term.

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Diogenes , Volume 56 , Issue 2-3 , August 2009 , pp. 51 - 59
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Copyright © ICPHS 2009

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