title: Crisis and Communitas. An Introduction
abstract: The main idea of Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics gained its shape at the end of 2019. That is why, at the very moment of writing this short introduction to the Crisis and Communitas volume, the critical situation has already deeply affected how the eponymous key notions are thought of and defined. Crisis and communitas are here in a dialectical and dynamic interplay, and social efforts to overcome crisis can be thought of not only in context of re