Konec skupnosti, fenomenološko razjasnjen

When it comes to the concept of community in phenomenology, possibility holds a higher value than reality. The author emphasizes that a community becomes more attractive to its participants the broader the range of possibilities, which can be realized within it. On the other hand, the dynamic of a community is determined by the degree of alignment or misalignment between the changes of individuals and of their habitual patterns, and the habitualness of the community. When the two habitual patterns—the one of the community and the one of its participants—reach an irreconcilable antagonism, the end of the community is inevitable. Paradoxically, the ideal community is precisely the one whose members can relatively easily accept its dissolution. Unlike totalitarian forms of sociality, in which only the possibilities of the community are realized, but not those of the individuals, members of the ideal community manage to maintain awareness of their own possibilities, recognizing that no community is in the position to completely exhaust an individual’s potential. In the second part of the paper, the author presents three types of potential community dissolution, which arise from varying degrees of attachment to the possibilities that the community is capable of realizing.