Communication and Community
Anglo-German Perspectives
Published on 17. December 1996
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-1-85972-138-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume looks at the issues of community and identity. It includes discussions of the position of women and the subject of "citizenship" in countries such as Germany and India.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 222 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-138-4 (9781859721384)
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Content
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.