http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/jean-luc-nancy Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 16:44:16 -0400 Thu, 21 May 2026 16:44:16 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/662/finitude-existence-and-community-letting-the-individual-die By Nicole Billitz - Addressing finitude as it relates to existence and community, Jean Luc Nancy and Martin Heidegger recognize finitude to be both the impossibility of being at one with oneself and the radical fragmentation of Being, in terms of mortality. Nancy contends that there is a fundamental relationship between the community and death, which necessitates an ethical imperative to the other, and by association negates violence to the other. For Nancy, existence or “being-with” is necessarily ethical because we are constituted by other beings. For Heidegger, ethics is dwelling in closeness to Being... Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:58 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/662/finitude-existence-and-community-letting-the-individual-die