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- Title
More Than Vulnerable: Rethinking Community.
- Authors
Fuster, Àngela Lorena
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to disentangle some aspects of the link established between community and mourning. It will be done in order to highlight in which sense the community of mourners would be an impossible political community. In order to discuss the approach of thinkers such as Judith Butler on the possibility of setting a political community grounded on the recognition of our common precarious life, the paper will analyze the challenges posed by the film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, under the light of the political theory of Hannah Arendt, especially from her articulation of the connection between mortality, politics, memory and judgment. This analysis allows us also to reveal some prejudices inherited by the theoretical proposal of Butler from the androcentric Modern paradigm, which she tries to criticize through her emphasis on vulnerability.
- Subjects
POLITICAL community; COMMUNITIES; HIROSHIMA mon amour (Film); PREJUDICES; POLITICS in motion pictures
- Publication
Critical Studies, 2014, Vol 37, p121
- ISSN
0923-411X
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism