ISBN:
3110457350
,
9783110457353
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9783110459791
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
5 Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology 3
Series Statement:
Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology Ser v.3
Parallel Title:
Print version Melville, Gert Potency of the Common : Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality
DDC:
900
Keywords:
Corporate culture
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Individualität
;
Gemeinschaft
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Südamerika
;
Ethnische Gruppe
;
Gemeinschaft
Abstract:
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. Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Preface -- Content -- Philosophical and Sociological Basics -- The Hermeneutical Constitution of "the Common" -- The Multiple Uses of 'Community' in Sociological Theory. Historical Type, Ideal Type, Political Utopia, Socio-technological Device and Ontological Foundation of 'Society' -- Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy
Abstract:
Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning. Reflections from Anthropological, Sociological and Political Perspectives -- 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. A Metaphysical View
Abstract:
Enduring Coherence and Distance. Monastic and Princely Communities in Medieval Europe -- "Singularitas" and Community. About a Relationship of Contradiction and Complement in Medieval Convents -- 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
Abstract:
Individual and Community in Early Daoism. Diffuse and Organized Religion in Chinese History -- Languages, Names and Images. Community and Identity Markers in Ancient Jewish Epigraphy of Western Europe -- Community, Illegality and Belonging. Undocumented Migrant Workers and Anti-deportation Campaigns in Israel -- The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear. Long-Lasting Tensions in Contexts of Conflict in Mozambique -- South American Conditions -- The Contemporaneity of 'The Savage Mind' In the Andean Communities
Abstract:
Home is not Enough. (Dis)connecting a Rankülche Indigenous Collective, a Territory, and a Community in La Pampa, Argentina -- Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885-1950) -- The Boundaries of Self. Reappraising the Social Simultaneity of Transnational Migrant Communities -- When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland. Rafael Barrett and Latin America -- About the Authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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