Communication and Community

Part 1: some reflections on human nature, communication and community, Kurt L. Shell; community - concept, conception, and ideology, Raymond Plant; citizenship and community - the promise of social citizenship, Tony Rees; the import of pragmatism in Britain and Germany, Peter Niesen; community, subjectivity and selfhood, Caroline Williams; what does it mean to be an "American" - or a "European", or an "Indian"?; travels in hyperreality revisited - on communities real and imagined, Liam O'Sullivan; community, beyond communication, Klaus Hofmann. Part 2: female suffrage and politics for women in Germany, Frolinde Balser; what the butler didn't see - discourse and ideology in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Remains of the Day", Harald Raykowsky; Ilse Aichinger - her language and her self, Andrea Reiter; percipere aut percipi - India in the British press, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan; the collapse of the GDR and the language of German unification, Alan Brier and Ingrid Hauschild; communication or incommensurability? - some contested issues in social work theory and practice, Robin Lovelock and Jackie Powell.