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Toward a global thin community : Nietzsche, Foucault, and the cosmopolitan commitment / Mark Olssen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olssen, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism.
- Communitarianism.
- Liberty.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992.
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2009]
- Summary:
- Toward a Global??Thin??? Community reexamines aspects of the liberal-communitarian debate. While critical of both traditions, this book argues that a coherent form of communitarianism is the only plausible option for citizens today. Using the theories of Frederich Nietzsche and Michael Foucault, Olssen shows how we can overcome traditional problems with communitarianism by using an ethic of survival that he identifies in the writings of Nietzsche and others to provide a normative framework for twenty-first century politics at both national and global levels. "Thin" communitarianism seeks to surmount traditional liberal objections associated with Hegel and Marx, and to safeguard liberty and difference by applying a robust idea of democracy. This work examines many different themes within the debate, including liberal autonomy, totalitarianism, and multiculturalism. It also considers the work of liberal writers such as Frederic Hayek, Karl Popper, and Isaiah Berlin.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The "thin" community and liberalism
- Nietzsche and the philosophy of the future
- Foucault as "thin" communitarian : difference, community, democracy
- A post-structuralist approach to community
- Toward a social theory of practice
- Life as good and bad
- Universalism, cultural pluralism, and the ethics of the future
- The necessity of co-ordination
- Communitarian cosmopolitanism
- Toward a global thin community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594514463
- 1594514461
- OCLC:
- 196302192
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