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Michael Strysick, ed.
The Politics of Community
Critical Studies in the Humanities
Scholars from Plato, to Aristotle, to
the present have wrestled with the question of how best to structure
community. While community generally is defined by what is common
among individuals, The Politics of Community is equally
concerned with the negative ways in which exclusion functions
in community despite that community's declared goals of inclusion.
Aware of such failures, this work diagnoses the “grammatical” or
foundational character underlying the community through literary and
cultural narratives from scholars in literature, philosophy, film,
history, sociology, feminist studies and postcolonial studies.
Contents
Introduction: Michael Strysick, Transforming Community.
Part I: Bridges to Past and Future
Verena Andermatt Conley, More
Communal Crisis
Alphonso Lingis, Cues, Watchwords,
Passwords.
Part II: Community, Politics, and the
Political
Dennis A. Foster, Pleasure and
Community in Cultural Criticism
Michael Strysick, The End of
Community and the Politics of Grammar.
Part III: Community and French Theory
A. J. P. Thomson, Against
Community: Derrida contra Nancy
Robert Mitchell, Fraternal
Anonymity: Blanchot and Nancy on Community
and Mitsein.
Part IV: Transnational Communities
Jane Hiddleston, Re-imagining Community and Cultural Difference:
Nancy’s Theory and the Context of Immigration in France
Linnell Secomb, Haunted Community
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Imagining Communities of the
“Yet-to-be-Fully-National”: Hong Kong Action Cinema’s Engagement
with a Globalized Transnational Imaginary.
Part V: Community and Identity
Astra Taylor, Reclaiming Radical:
Hegemony, Rhetoric, Community
Naomi Silver, The Politics of
Sacrifice
Kirsten Campbell, New Feminist Communities For The
Third Wave.
Bibliography
Author
Michael Strysick currently teaches in the Department of English at Wake
Forest University. His articles appear in journals such as
Cultural Critique, Romanic Review, and South Atlantic
Review, he has contributed several entries to the forthcoming
Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, and his essay
“Emerson, Slavery, and the Evolution of Self-Reliance” recently
appeared in The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social
Reform (Georgia, 2001).
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