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A 10 page essay/research paper that discusses the concept of interruption of myth as evident in Virginia Woolf's 1941 novel Between the Acts as foreshadowing Jean-Luc Nancy's presentation of this concept 45 years later. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of these texts addresses how the conventional concepts of society, and therefore also community, can be interrupted, that is, not totally displaced, but altered by circumstance or events in ways
that affect the cognition of the populace. This examination will, first of all, discuss the ways in which the philosophies of Woolf and Nancy are similar and then describe the
ways in which they diverge. Similarities The interruption of myth takes place when "myth realizes itself dialectically and in realizing itself as myth is cut off from its own
meaning" (Mullins 280). Nancy indicates that the differences between society and community is that society can be defined as an "organized (or operative) association of individuals maintain through work," while
community can be viewed as "the exposure of singularities" (Mullins 277). In using this term, Nancy is saying that a community is not the "gathering of autonomous individuals under an
operative structure," but rather is "a kind of being-with or being-in-common" (Mullins 277). In other words, according to Nancy, the concept of community can be found in the inclination of
individuals towards each other, that is, the inclination of human beings to social behavior. Nancy refers to this conception of community as "inoperative community" (Mullins 278). Woolfs concept of
community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an alternative to the way in which community was presented
within the framework of fascism, which conceptualized communities as "closed, exclusionary entities" (Vermeulen 95). Nancys goal in Inoperative Communities is to demonstrate how his philosophical perspective can serve to "open
up" the closed perspective on fascism and authoritarian nationalism in regards to communities through an awareness of a "more ethically attuned form of togetherness" (Vermeulen 95). This is also
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