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. Continental Perspectives on Community brings the different approaches of these thinkers into conversation with each other. It discusses the possibility of how the concept of community can extend beyond the one and beyond any sense of unity and totality. Additionally the book shows how notion of community in plurality is at the heart of ethical and political reflections on alterity and race of political philosophical reflections on the exception and of ontological reflections on what it means for humans to be social. In this way it offers an important contribution to the examination of how a community can be thought today. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on social political and cultural issues in Continental philosophy. . Language: English