The Concept of Community from a Global Perspective.

• Superior document: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought Series ; v.12
• Author: Bond, Niall.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages)

This volume presents essays analysing the ambivalent history of the globally influential political and social concept of community and the paradigms it has engendered in academia and politics.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Community: The Career of a Concept between Compassion and Tribalism -- Select Bibliography -- Part 1 Classical Formulations of Community and Ferdinand Tönnies -- Chapter 2 Tönnies and Hegel on the Ethical State -- Tönnies and Hegel -- The State as Goal -- The Family -- "Sittlichkeit" and "Sitte" -- Law -- An Ethical State -- Concluding Comments -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Notes on Community and the Common in Marx -- 1 Marx or the Crossroads -- 2 The Dimensions of Community and the Privilege of the Communitarian -- 3 The Instance of the Common and the Capitalist Society -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Ferdinand Tönnies' Emerging School: Academic Sociability and the Awakening of Gemeinschaft -- 1 Tönnies and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy -- 2 Tönnies and His Followers in Eutin -- Renewal through Gemeinschaft -- Situating and Assessing Tönnies' School -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Günther Rudolph - A Sketch of the Life and Work of a Tönnies Scholar in East Germany: On the Reception of Tönnies' Work by the Left -- Günther Rudolph's Life -- Günther Rudolph's Work on Tönnies -- Günther Rudolph's Publications on Tönnies, Published during Rudolph's Lifetime -- Acknowledgement -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Ferdinand Tönnies and the French-Speaking World -- Tönnies' Introduction into the International Social Sciences through René Worms -- The First Critique of Tönnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in French: Émile Durkheim -- Social Contacts and Philosophical Networking -- Further French Contacts -- Gabriel Tarde -- Victor Leemans: A Cosmopolitan yet Nationalist Herald of Tönnies -- Tönnies' Political Attitudes towards France.

Summary -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 7 When the Dream (Almost) Came True: European Community from Ideology to Institutions -- The Origins of the Personalist and Communitarian Ideology: Sedimentations and Aggregations -- Aspects of the Third Way under the Vichy Regime: From National Revolution to a "European Community" -- Practical Continuities and Ideological Contiguities: From La Fédération to the Congress of Europe -- The Metamorphoses of the Third Way: Toward a Federal and Communitarian Europe -- Competing Representations of Europe: Corporatism and Parliamentarianism -- Select Bibliography -- Part 2 Disciplinary, Literary, and Artistic Expressions of Community -- Chapter 8 Community between Horde and Herd: A Corpus Study -- 1 A Plague Year -- 2 Benefits of Corpus Research -- 3 The Corpora and the Concept in Question -- 4 Community Transmission and Herd Immunity -- 5 Whole Community and Primal Horde -- 6 Permeable Community -- Acknowledgements -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Community as a "Near-Concept": Essay on Socio-anthropological Typology -- Brief Historical Review on the Concept of "Community" in Social Sciences -- The Issue of "Community" in Contemporary Debates -- An Attempt at Conceptual Typology -- Four Ideals-Types of Community: Convergences and Oppositions -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 10 What Does a Constitution Look Like?: Community and the Powerful Narrative of Myth -- The Words of Power -- The Form of the Text: A Text-Tsimia -- "What Has Been Made of the Tale that Told about Us?":3 The "Communitarian System" of a Modern Work (Genêt) -- Contemporary Fiction -- Who Is Homer? -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Laughing Together as a Strategy of Survivance for Native American Communities -- Territorial Dispossession -- Survival or Community Humour -- Tricksters -- Select Bibliography.

Chapter 12 Community and Music -- Select Bibliography -- Part 3 The Trajectory of the Notion of Community across the World -- Chapter 13 Community and the (Liberal) Individual -- Two Communities and the (Liberal) Individual -- The Liberal Tradition: The Individual vs Community? -- Coming Closer? Early Twentieth-Century Developments -- The Communitarian Critique -- Contemporary Challenges -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 14 The Anatomy of the People -- 1 Conceptual Binaries -- 1.1 Aggregative or Self-Collecting Groups -- 1.2 Nature and Artifice -- 1.3 Normative or Empirical -- 2 The Concept of the People -- 2.1 The People and Its Past -- 2.2 Who Are the People: The Beast with Many Heads? -- 3 Oblique Vessels for the People -- 3.1 People and Sovereignty -- 3.2 People and Democracy -- 3.3 People and Nation -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 15 The Boundaries of Faith: How Religious Communities Negotiate Space -- A Religious "Wall" on Public Land: Accommodating Religion and Protecting Communities -- Territory, Property, and Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 16 Communal Life beyond the State: Radical Utopianism in South Africa, Japan, and Jamaica (1900-1950) -- Radical Utopianism, Critiques against State Power, and Communal Life -- Criticizing the State: Tolstoy Farm, Pinnacle Commune, and the Nōson Seinen Sha -- Communal Life beyond the State: Satyagraha, Anarcho-Communism, and Rastafari -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Community in African Moral-Political Philosophy -- 1 Introducing African Communitarianism -- 2 Communal Moral Status -- 3 Communal Virtue -- 4 Communal Justice -- 5 Concluding Thoughts on African Communitarianism -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.