Starting from the notion of "contemporary" expressed by Giorgio Agamben, we propose two ways of thinking about community today: 1) From the sociological standpoint, which sees community as a shared common substance (territory, culture, ethnicity, class, etc.), and 2) Based on the so-called contemporary philosophers of community (Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Bataille, Roberto Esposito and Giorgio Agamben), who desubstantiate the community, understanding it as the experience of desubjectification (binding). This paper briefly discusses the relationship between these philosophers on a common issue (ontological difference) and its possible application as a communication problem.
binding; communitas; hermeneutics; ontological difference