Community : Ethics, Inter-Subjectivity and the Foundations of Political Life

ISBN-13: 9783639126037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 308 str.

Majid Yar

Opis

The idea of community has been a consistent featureof recent academic and public discourse. Just whatthis term might mean, however, is the subject ongoingdispute amongst social and political thinkers. Thisbook offers a wide-ranging exploration of theprolematique of community as it has featured in bothancient and modern thought. Through discussion of thephilosophies of Aristotle, Aquinas, Rousseau, Hobbes,Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas and others,the contours of modernity's attempts to imaginecommunity are excavated. Drawing upon the recentrevival of interest in Hegel's 'theory ofrecognition', it offers an original theorisation ofcommunity, one that seeks to reconcile the seeminglyconflicting demands of freedom and belonging. Such atheory, it is argued, is capable of simultaneouslyattending to the demands of solidarity, differenceand critique, and as such is attuned to the complex,pluralistic and reflexive character of late modernsocieties.

O autorze

Majid Yar, BA (Hons), MA, PhD is Professor of Sociology in the
Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull, UK.