Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)тАФa book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on тАЬthe inoperative communityтАЭтАФNancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe BaillyтАЩs initial proposal to think community in terms of тАЬnumberтАЭ or the тАЬnumerous,тАЭ and unfolding as a close reading of BlanchotтАЩs text, NancyтАЩs new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from BlanchotтАЩs thinking, from BatailleтАЩs тАЬcommunity of loversтАЭ to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.