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Potency of the common: intercultural perspectives about community and individuality

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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...

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Other Authors: Melville, Gert (Editor) , Ruta, Carlos Rafael (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: Boston Berlin De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2016]
Series:Challenges of life volume 3
In: Challenges of life (volume 3)

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DOI:10.1515/9783110459791
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Konferenzschrift > 10.11.2015-13.11.2015 > Buenos Aires
Ethnische Gruppe
Südamerika
Kulturelle Identität
Gemeinschaft
Individualität
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Author Notes:edited by Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Content
  • Philosophical and Sociological Basics
  • The Hermeneutical Constitution of “the Common”
  • The Multiple Uses of ‘Community’ in Sociological Theory
  • Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy
  • Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning
  • 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
  • Enduring Coherence and Distance
  • “Singularitas” and Community
  • 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
  • Individual and Community in Early Daoism
  • Languages, Names and Images
  • Community, Illegality and Belonging
  • The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear
  • South American Conditions
  • The Contemporaneity of ‘The Savage Mind’ In the Andean Communities
  • Home is not Enough
  • Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885–1950)
  • The Boundaries of Self
  • When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland
  • About the Authors

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