ABSTRACT
The problematic relation between myth and community is certainly one of the central concerns of Jean-Luc Nancy's work. Considering Nancy's interest in art in general, one is inclined to conclude that what Nancy refers to as 'literary' does not necessarily entail a privileging of literature as a specific art form. Nancy insists on the necessity of such questioning in order to expose Being Singular Plural as the very foundation, the paradoxical foundation of ontology; paradoxical because it refuses to search for one origin and wants to radically expose the plurality of origins, the original explosion and dissemination of Being into singular plurality or plural singularity. Nancy's ethico-ontological qualification of art and/or the poetical qualification of the ontological is at the heart of his view on aesthetics, ontology, on the one hand, and community, on the other, culminating in the equation of co-existence.
