Returning (to) communities : theory, culture and political practice of the communal /

Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this bo...

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Altri autori: Herbrechter, Stefan, Higgins, Michael
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Serie:Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 28.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160132
Sommario:
  • Table of Contents; Introduction; Section One: Conceptualising Communities; Comprehending Community; Theorising Europe from the Other Shore: Derrida, Community and the Exemplarity of Europe; Heterogeneous Community: Beyond New Traditionalism; Stanley Fish meet Jean-Paul Sartre: Community, Difference and Multicultural Theory; Thomas Kuhn's Construction of Scientific Communities; Jean-Luc Nancy: An Attempt to Reduce Community to Ontology; Webs as Pegs; Section Two: Communities and Cultural Praxis.