Potency of the Common
Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2016
XI, 430 pages
978-3-11-045979-1 (ISBN)
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The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.
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Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality
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Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Content
- Philosophical and Sociological Basics
- The Hermeneutical Constitution of "the Common"
- The Multiple Uses of 'Community' in Sociological Theory. Historical Type, Ideal Type, Political Utopia, Socio-technological Device and Ontological Foundation of 'Society'
- Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy
- Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning. Reflections from Anthropological, Sociological and Political Perspectives
- Heterogeneity, Community and Cultural Configurations
- Community and Eventfulness
- Community and Money: An Approach from Moral Sociology
- Historical Structures
- Community and Individual Autonomy: Genealogy of a Challenge
- The Contemporary "Divinization" of Individual Human Beings, or the Difficult Community. A Metaphysical View
- Enduring Coherence and Distance. Monastic and Princely Communities in Medieval Europe
- "Singularitas" and Community. About a Relationship of Contradiction and Complement in Medieval Convents
- The Dark Side of Community - Early Modern German Witch Hunts
- Considerations on the Role of Translation in the Building of Symphilosophy-Community by the Early German Romantics
- Cultural Identities
- The Bonds of the Liberated: On Community among Hindu Ascetics
- Individual and Community in Early Daoism. Diffuse and Organized Religion in Chinese History
- Languages, Names and Images. Community and Identity Markers in Ancient Jewish Epigraphy of Western Europe
- Community, Illegality and Belonging. Undocumented Migrant Workers and Anti-deportation Campaigns in Israel
- The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear. Long-Lasting Tensions in Contexts of Conflict in Mozambique
- South American Conditions
- The Contemporaneity of 'The Savage Mind' In the Andean Communities
- Home is not Enough. (Dis)connecting a Rankülche Indigenous Collective, a Territory, and a Community in La Pampa, Argentina
- Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885-1950)
- The Boundaries of Self. Reappraising the Social Simultaneity of Transnational Migrant Communities
- When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland. Rafael Barrett and Latin America
- About the Authors
