A community of the question

This quote is from Derrida’s essay on Levinas ‘Violence and Metaphysics’ in Writing and Difference.

In the garden we are in the process of reviewing what defines us and whilst this paragraph is actually talking about the community of philosophers in/after the end of philosophy, for me it captures perfectly the nuanced situation that projects like the garden must maintain -  obligated to decide and to act but never in a way that closes the question, always moving forward in a way that leaves the open open.

“A community of the question, therefore, within that fragile moment when the question is not yet determined enough for the hypocrisy of an answer to have already initiated itself beneath the mask of the question, and not yet determined enough for its voice to have been already and fraudulently articulated within the very syntax of the question. A community of decision, of initiative, of absolute initiality, but also a threatened community, in which the question has not yet found the language it has decided to speak, is not yet sure of its own possibility within the community. A community of the question about the possibility of the question.”

I know this seems so vague but I really feel the journey we are on is this fragile and  I fear the temptation to settle for easy short-cuts.