Abstract

This article will argue that ‘A-religion’ , Jean-Luc Nancy’s reading of Claire Denis’sBeau travail , can be understood in the context of concerns he explores elsewherein his philosophical work.1I will be focusing here on the ways in which his thinking ofquestions of community and Christianity and Dis-Enclosure respectively) can be seen to influence anddirect his reading of Denis’s film. Beau travail, this article will argue, comes to represent forNancy a point of intersection between two main issues: the demand of community on theone hand and the deconstruction of Christianity on the other, that is, broadly speaking, thepolitical on the one hand and the theological on the other