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Potency of the Common : Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality / ed. by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 3Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (XI, 430 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110457353
  • 9783110457469
  • 9783110459791
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM1276 .P67 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Philosophical and Sociological Basics -- The Hermeneutical Constitution of “the Common” -- The Multiple Uses of ‘Community’ in Sociological Theory -- Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy -- Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning -- 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 -- Enduring Coherence and Distance -- “Singularitas” and Community -- 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 -- Languages, Names and Images -- Community, Illegality and Belonging -- The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear -- South American Conditions -- The Contemporaneity of ‘The Savage Mind’ In the Andean Communities -- Home is not Enough -- Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885–1950) -- The Boundaries of Self -- When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland -- About the Authors
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Philosophical and Sociological Basics -- The Hermeneutical Constitution of “the Common” -- The Multiple Uses of ‘Community’ in Sociological Theory -- Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy -- Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning -- 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 -- Enduring Coherence and Distance -- “Singularitas” and Community -- 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 -- Languages, Names and Images -- Community, Illegality and Belonging -- The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear -- South American Conditions -- The Contemporaneity of ‘The Savage Mind’ In the Andean Communities -- Home is not Enough -- Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885–1950) -- The Boundaries of Self -- When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland -- About the Authors

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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