The lesson was helpful and engaging.
The Centre had too often been the mere successive reception of speakers, rather than a common space with common concerns.
Overall, a very good first experience.
Nancy is thinking largely of the period of the German romantics, of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who left us a mythical natural community as a counterpoint to modern society, but the target of his analysis is also of contemporary communitarianisms, like Alasdair MacIntyre, who speak of the need for a return to pre-modern communities.
He always maintains a very singular voice and perspective.
My freedom, says Nancy, does not end where that of the other starts, but the existence of the other is the necessary condition to be free.