Community and nihilism: around the thinking of Jean-Luc Nancy

Abstract

Jean-Luc Nancy has posed problems concerning sense, democracy, creation and being-with. This text propose a lecture of this elements with the help of a thinking of nihilism, setting out the need of reaching the bottom of the “black hole” of nihilism, where it would just exist the unforeseeable, the un-seen, the things that could not being figurate yet. For the author, democracy is the form of government of nihilism, where any lifestyle has common measure with other lifestyles, where the indistinction and the emptiness of sense don’t allow hierarchy. Getting out of nihilism would involve the integration of a particular kind of aristocracy that allows the distinction within democracy. In this going beyond democracy there’s an exit from nihilism.