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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Braceras, Diana,; Carugati, Laura S.,; Casares, Santiago Gonzalez,; Cohen, Rodrigo Laham,; Delrio, Walter,; Gianneschi, Horacio A.,; Grimson, Alejandro,; Guizardi, Menara,; Itzigsohn, José,; Kemp, Adriana,; Kleeman, Terry F.,; Lazzari, Axel C.,; Marinis, Pablo de,; Melville, Gert,; Rehberg, Karl Siegbert,; Ruta, Carlos,; Scavino, Dardo,; Schneidmüller, Bernd,; Schwerhoff, Gerd,; Thomaz, Omar Ribeiro,; Vara, Ana María,; Wilkis, Ariel,; Zotter, Christof,
• HerausgeberIn: Melville, Gert,; Ruta, Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 430 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110459791; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485189
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110459791
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

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.