Potency of the Common: Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality (Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Ant)

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. Preface Content Philosophical and Sociological Basics The Hermeneutical Constitution of “the Common” The Multiple Uses of ‘Community’ in Sociological Theory. Historical Type, Ideal Type, Political Utopia, Socio-technological Device and Ontological Foundation of ‘Society’ Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning. Reflections from Anthropological, Sociological and Political Perspectives 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. A Metaphysical View Enduring Coherence and Distance. Monastic and Princely Communities in Medieval Europe “Singularitas” and Community. About a Relationship of Contradiction and Complement in Medieval Convents 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. Diffuse and Organized Religion in Chinese History Languages, Names and Images. Community and Identity Markers in Ancient Jewish Epigraphy of Western Europe Community, Illegality and Belonging. Undocumented Migrant Workers and Anti-deportation Campaigns in Israel The Passage of Time and the Permanence of Fear. Long-Lasting Tensions in Contexts of Conflict in Mozambique South American Conditions The Contemporaneity of ‘The Savage Mind’ In the Andean Communities Home is not Enough. (Dis)connecting a Rankülche Indigenous Collective, a Territory, and a Community in La Pampa, Argentina Indigenous communalizations in Patagonia in Post-genocidal Contexts (1885–1950) The Boundaries of Self. Reappraising the Social Simultaneity of Transnational Migrant Communities When a Rebel Finds a Cause, a Discourse, and a Homeland. Rafael Barrett and Latin America About the Authors How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology. All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together "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."--Page 4 of cover