(France, 1940, lives in Strasbourg). He is considered one of the most influential French thinkers today. Professor of Philosophy at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and collaborator of the universities of Berkeley and Berlin, he is the author of numerous works that address some of the most crucial and complex issues of the twentieth century, such as the construction of Nationalities and nationalisms. Nancy deconstructs the concept of community developed since the establishment of society and argues that Western societies have given themselves up to a desperate search for a lost (pre-capitalist) past. Nancy also mentions that community is a form of absolutism and, therefore, an impossibility. Among his publications are Corpus (1992), Ser singular Plural (1996), La comunidad inoperante (2000) and A la escucha (2002), among many others.