Art and the Heideggerian Repression: Ranciére, Nancy, and a Communism of the Image. Issue 1 (3rd September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eng, Michael
• Is Part Of: Comparative and continental philosophy. Volume 5:Issue 1(2013)
• Page Start: 19
• Page End: 35
• Publication Date: 2013-09-03
• Subjects: image -- distribution of the sensible -- sense -- partage -- sharing -- literary communism -- community -- finitude -- being-with; Philosophy, Comparative -- Periodicals; Philosophy, European -- Periodicals; Art -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Literature -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1179/1757063813Z.0000000002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-0638

Abstract

Abstract : This essay conducts a reading of Jean-Luc Nancy's and Jacques Rancière's respective theorizations of the image. Using Nancy's notion of literary communism, I first show how he and Rancière conceive the image as a site of community's open writing and contestation. My reading then demonstrates how this "communism of the image" exposes Rancière's repetition of an ontological gesture that he has attempted to dismiss as Heideggerian.