Potency of the Common : : Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016 |
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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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 430 p.) |
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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 |
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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. |
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. |