Abstract
One of the core issues in ‘rethinking the Left in France’ is the question of whether and how the Left in France can give renewed life to its basic values in the context of a transformed society. This paper analyses the historical relationship between the Left and the idea of community. It suggests some problems in the way in which the Left has conceptualized the idea of community. Those problems centre on the greater salience of difference, traditionally viewed with suspicion in the republican tradition inherited and developed by the French Left. A concept of community derived from the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy can be used to develop a revised and revived republicanism, a form of community appropriate to contemporary politics, thus contributing to a necessary rethinking of one of the French Left's most basic ideas.
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