The concept of community from a global perspective / edited by Niall Bond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bond, Niall, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

History of European political and constitutional thought ; v. 12.

History of European political and constitutional thought, 2589-5966 ; volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 340 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Select Bibliography

Chapter 1 Community: The Career of a Concept between Compassion and Tribalism

Part 1 Classical Formulations of Community and Ferdinand Tönnies

Chapter 2 Tönnies and Hegel on the Ethical State

Tönnies and Hegel

The State as Goal

The Family

"Sittlichkeit" and "Sitte"

Law

An Ethical State

Concluding Comments

Chapter 3 Notes on Community and the Common in Marx

1 Marx or the Crossroads

2 The Dimensions of Community and the Privilege of the Communitarian

3 The Instance of the Common and the Capitalist Society

Chapter 4 Ferdinand Tönnies' Emerging School: Academic Sociability and the Awakening of Gemeinschaft

1 Tönnies and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

2 Tönnies and His Followers in Eutin

Renewal through Gemeinschaft

Situating and Assessing Tönnies' School

Chapter 5 Günther Rudolph

A Sketch of the Life and Work of a Tönnies Scholar in East Germany: On the Reception of Tönnies' Work by the Left

Günther Rudolph's Life

Günther Rudolph's Work on Tönnies

Günther Rudolph's Publications on Tönnies, Published during Rudolph's Lifetime

Acknowledgement

Chapter 6 Ferdinand Tönnies and the French-Speaking World

Tönnies' Introduction into the International Social Sciences through René Worms

The First Critique of Tönnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in French: Émile Durkheim

Social Contacts and Philosophical Networking

Further French Contacts

Gabriel Tarde

Victor Leemans: A Cosmopolitan yet Nationalist Herald of Tönnies

Tönnies' Political Attitudes towards France.

Chapter 12 Community and Music

Part 3 The Trajectory of the Notion of Community across the World

Chapter 13 Community and the (Liberal) Individual

Two Communities and the (Liberal) Individual

The Liberal Tradition: The Individual vs Community?

Coming Closer? Early Twentieth-Century Developments

The Communitarian Critique

Contemporary Challenges

Chapter 14 The Anatomy of the People

1 Conceptual Binaries

1.1 Aggregative or Self-Collecting Groups

1.2 Nature and Artifice

1.3 Normative or Empirical

2 The Concept of the People

2.1 The People and Its Past

2.2 Who Are the People: The Beast with Many Heads?

3 Oblique Vessels for the People

3.1 People and Sovereignty

3.2 People and Democracy

3.3 People and Nation

Conclusion

Chapter 15 The Boundaries of Faith: How Religious Communities Negotiate Space

A Religious "Wall" on Public Land: Accommodating Religion and Protecting Communities

Territory, Property, and Sovereignty

Chapter 16 Communal Life beyond the State: Radical Utopianism in South Africa, Japan, and Jamaica (1900-1950)

Radical Utopianism, Critiques against State Power, and Communal Life

Criticizing the State: Tolstoy Farm, Pinnacle Commune, and the Nōson Seinen Sha

Communal Life beyond the State: Satyagraha, Anarcho-Communism, and Rastafari

Chapter 17 Community in African Moral-Political Philosophy

1 Introducing African Communitarianism

2 Communal Moral Status

3 Communal Virtue

4 Communal Justice

5 Concluding Thoughts on African Communitarianism

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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9789004697324

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40032601188

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