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Vom zugehörigen Selbst

Narrative der Gemeinschaft


Back to issue: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2021/2: Belonging/ Zugehörigkeit
DOI: 10.28937/9783787341061_5
EUR 16.90


In my paper I discuss belonging to a community as a lived experience aiming at interrogating with Hannah Arendt the dynamics of constituting or reshaping communities through action. The ungraspable »we« of communities allows for both constraining narratives and initiating new forms of belonging as a response to the need to belong. Acting together creates communities which can overturn the often painful experience of belonging to unbearable social units.