This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon, Baldwin, Nancy, Agamben and Laruelle.

Chantal Bax is Senior Policy Officer for the Humanities at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Subjectivity After Wittgenstein: The Post-Cartesian Subject and the "Death of Man" (2011).

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Professor of Metaphysics in the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement (2010) and Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy (2014), co-editor of Investigating Subjectivity: Classical and New Perspectives (2011) and Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought (2017), and editor of Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality (2015).

Introduction: Thinking Community Today

Chantal Bax and Gert-Jan van der Heiden

Part I: Community Beyond Unity

1. On Open Community: Nancy, Laruelle and the Un-determination of the Real

Ian James

2. Community and Coexistence: Nancy and Derrida Reading Hegel, Separately and Together

Joanna Hodge

3. A Community That Is Not One: Nietzsche and the True Voice of Justice

Simon Glendinning

4. Communities of Exception: Badiou and Agamben on Saint Paul

Gert-Jan van der Heiden

Part II: Community in Plurality

5. Arendtian Beginning under the Threat of Violence

Sanem Yaz¿c¿öl

6. Dialectics, Alterity, Race

John Drabinski

7. Levinas on Human Sociality: Beyond Belonging and Back Again

Chantal Bax

8. Heidegger on Being-With-Others (in a Place over Time)

Sonia Sikk