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The Crisis of ‘Community’: Revisions of a Concept in German-Jewish Thought after 1933

The notion of community underwent a profound crisis in German-Jewish thought after 1933. My article analyses the revision of this basic social concept — community — in texts written by Alfred Döblin, Hannah Arendt, and Vilém Flusser. The authors, all of them refugees and stateless at some moment of their lives, are extraordinarily harsh critics of the nation state. From their reflections in essays and other short writings produced in exile and afterwards, I will derive different models of living together as ‘imagined communities’, imbued with their own biographical experience as well as with intellectual traditions: the diasporic colony (Döblin), the pariah community (Arendt), and finally the network that is a substitute for ‘Heimat’ (Flusser).