Potency of the Common: Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality

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Potency of the Common

Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality

Edited by: Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 3 | Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology

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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 comparison.

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Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Philosophical and Sociological Basics
The Hermeneutical Constitution of “the Common” Carlos Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
The Multiple Uses of ‘Community’ in Sociological Theory Historical Type, Ideal Type, Political Utopia, Socio-technological Device and Ontological Foundation of ‘Society’ Pablo de Marinis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy José Itzigsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning Reflections from Anthropological, Sociological and Political Perspectives Karl Siegbert Rehberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Heterogeneity, Community and Cultural Configurations Alejandro Grimson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Community and Eventfulness Santiago Gonzalez Casares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Community and Money: An Approach from Moral Sociology Ariel Wilkis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Historical Structures
Community and Individual Autonomy: Genealogy of a Challenge Dardo Scavino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
The Contemporary “Divinization” of Individual Human Beings, or the Difficult Community A Metaphysical View Horacio A. Gianneschi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Enduring Coherence and Distance Monastic and Princely Communities in Medieval Europe Bernd Schneidmüller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
“Singularitas” and Community About a Relationship of Contradiction and Complement in Medieval Convents Gert Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
The Dark Side of Community – Early Modern German Witch Hunts Gerd Schwerhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Considerations on the Role of Translation in the Building of Symphilosophy-Community by the Early German Romantics Laura S. Carugati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Cultural Identities
The Bonds of the Liberated: On Community among Hindu Ascetics Christof Zotter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Individual and Community in Early Daoism Diffuse and Organized Religion in Chinese History Terry F. Kleeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Languages, Names and Images Community and Identity Markers in Ancient Jewish Epigraphy of Western Europe Rodrigo Laham Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Community, Illegality and Belonging Undocumented Migrant Workers and Anti-deportation Campaigns in Israel Adriana Kemp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear Long-Lasting Tensions in Contexts of Conflict in Mozambique Omar Ribeiro Thomaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
South American Conditions
The Contemporaneity of ‘The Savage Mind’ In the Andean Communities Diana Braceras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Home is not Enough (Dis)connecting a Rankülche Indigenous Collective, a Territory, and a Community in La Pampa, Argentina Axel C. Lazzari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885–1950) Walter Delrio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
The Boundaries of Self Reappraising the Social Simultaneity of Transnational Migrant Communities Menara Guizardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland Rafael Barrett and Latin America Ana María Vara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429

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eBook published on:

September 26, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9783110459791

Hardcover published on:

September 26, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110457353

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

11

Main content:

430

Illustrations:

12

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110459791

eBook ISBN: 9783110459791

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110457353

Keywords for this book

Community; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural History

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Historians, cultural anthropologists, theologians, political scientists, philosophers

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