ISBN:
9789042038356
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Series Statement:
Critical Studies v.Vol. 37
Parallel Title:
Print version Differences in Common : Gender, vulnerability and community
DDC:
198.109233
Keywords:
Communities -- Philosophy
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Communities ; Philosophy
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Political science ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Differences in Common engages in the ongoing debate on 'community' focusing on its philosophical and political aspects through a gendered perspective. It explores the subversive and enriching potential of the concept of community, as seen from the perspective of heterogeneity and distance, and not from homogeneity and fused adhesions. This theoretical reflection is, in most of the essays included here, based on the analysis of literary and filmic texts, which, due to their irreducible singularity, teach us to think without being tied, or needing to resort, to commonplaces.Philosophers such as
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Impossible Communities?On Gender, Vulnerability and Community; I. Gender and Trans-national Citizenship; 1. The Reason(s) of Nation and Gender; 2. Nationalism and the Imagination; 3. The Hostage of the Womb by the Motherland; 4. Women and Citizenship: Poetry of Power, Time and Space; II. Vulnerability and Politics; 5. Bodily Vulnerability, Coalitions, and Street Politics; 6. More than Vulnerable: Rethinking Community; 7. Passionately Losing Oneself; 8. Opaque Encounters, Impossible Vicinities; III. (Fictional) Identities and the Politics of Memory
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Community and the Politics of Memory10. Fiction Traces. The Ideal Community and HistoricalSabotage; 11. What does Difference Have to do with Community?Derrida's Diacritic Difference; 12. Community as Transit and Stammering inCollaborative Writing; 13. Blood Ties: Interpretive Communities and Popular(Gendered) Genres; Contributors
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