ABSTRACT
Esposito demonstrates the original linkage
between community and the founding risk of
expropriation. From his perspective, commu-
nity is anything but a common essence or a
shared property. Community, for Esposito,
inaugurates the very absence or expropriation
of the proper, and the impossibility of the
in-common as founded on mutual appropriation
of the proper. This line of argumentation is very
similar to what Nancy states in several of his
books and articles: being-in-common undoes in
advance every closed community. In other
words: the fact that we always exist in-common
deconstructs a priori every enclosing totality.
There is always something and something else,
and this is why existence is always shared,
plural (see also Lingis; Crim).
