Community by Weissman, David
Community by Weissman, David

Community

Community is often invoked respectfully but without a clear referent. The word is said to be used...
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Author: David Weissman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Community by Weissman, David

Community

$409.86
Community by Weissman, David

Community

$409.86
Author: David Weissman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Community is often invoked respectfully but without a clear referent. The word is said to be used ninety-four ways, evidence that its sense is diffuse. Community clarifies the word's principal expressions and the alternative ideological spaces--holistic and hierarchical or open and tolerant--in which communities form. Members bind in the interest of utility--jobs or schools--or because home and friendship are the focus of feeling and significance. These binders are social glue: they explain our dedication to communal aims and loyalty to fellow members. Autonomy in their context is socialized; its bases are the information, attitudes, and skills acquired when families and schools prepare us for roles in communities inherited or chosen. Yet community is fraught. Holistic societies are repressive; open societies are vulnerable. The members of successful communities--families, businesses, and schools--often thrive. Those excluded for want of luck or skill are abandoned and anonymous. Their isolation is one of an open society's two pathologies: collaboration is a social necessity when resources, space, and skills are scarce; competition turned visceral and murderous is a vice.

Author: David Weissman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 02/01/2025
Pages: 169
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9798855801040

About the Author
David Weissman is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is the author of Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence and Truth's Debt to Value, among other books.
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