Sociedad y Comunidad: Dialéctica entre totalidad e "interrupción". Un esbozo de articulación a contramano del sentido común sociológico

Abstract

This paper attempts to present, explain and critically articulate, two perspectives (philosophical one, ethnological other) that transcend and defy the traditional framework (theoretical and political) with the classical sociological discourse has conceptualized the notions of community and society and its historical imbrication. In the first sections, we will discuss, in detail, how, from his deconstructive orientation, Jean Luc Nancy understands the notion of "inoperative community." Although the results of this development is absolutely counterintuitive according to sociological common sense, will be noticed, in turn, how this perspective might be sent to certain issues pertaining to the heart of contemporary sociological theory. The remaining sections, where the critical tension really starts, observe how it is possible from Nancy's philosophical approach to suggest a theoretical convergence with that line of ethnological research that describes the community relations from a grammar that revolves around the notion of the sacred and its associated violent content. On this last theoretical complex, we will highlight the theoretical concepts of liminality and communitas developed by British anthropologist Victor Turner to redefine, in this way, the relationship between the community and society in a genuinely dialectical perspective and derive from there a few considerations around the political.