Community and conflict : the sources of liberal solidarity / Derek Edyvane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edyvane, Derek, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Communities--Political aspects.

Communities in literature.

Social conflict.

Solidarity.

Physical Description:

x, 183 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

It is widely supposed among political philosophers and practitioners that moral conflict is destructive of political community. This book argues that, on the contrary, conflict is necessary for political community. Modern democratic societies display a degree of solidarity amid diversity for which the current theoretical approach cannot account. This book develops a new philosophical basis for political association at the heart of which lies a novel appeal to the way in which journey narratives in literature can serve to shed light on the possibilities for solidarity in modernity. This book will be welcomed for its extended development of an innovative way of thinking about community, a concept that is widely recognized as being of the utmost political importance, but which has received only limited attention in the theoretical literature.

Contents:

Introduction: Strangers 1

1 Why Liberal Community Matters 15

Liberal political community 17

Why justifiability matters 21

Community and pluralism 25

Community and consensus 27

Community in practice 30

2 The Shape of a Shared Life 35

The idea of a shared life 36

Narratives 40

Journeys 45

Fictions 51

3 Community as Pilgrimage 57

The pilgrimage narrative 58

Liberal community as pilgrimage 64

Assessing the pilgrimage model 69

4 Community as Escape 79

The escape narrative 81

Liberal community as escape 85

Assessing the escape model 91

5 Community as Quest 101

The quest narrative 102

Liberal community as quest 106

Assessing the quest model 114

Conclusion: The spectre of Don Quixote 119

6 On Companionship 123

Three paradigms 126

Friendship and properties 131

Friendship and journeys 135

Friendship and community 140

7 Political Friendship 147

Projection 148

Subversion 152

Motivation 159

Conclusion: Community and conflict 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

ISBN:

0230506860

9780230506862

OCLC:

77795602

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