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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466748403321

Titolo

Potency of the common : intercultural perspectives about community and individuality / / edited by Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-045746-6

3-11-045979-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 p.)

Collana

Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology  ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

302.35

Soggetti

Corporate culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.