Diversity and Community
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Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. Throughout, the volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. Throughout, the volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese, gay and lesbian, computer-mediated, and counter-culture communities.Including contributions from thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham, as well as work by several new theorists, this book is a solid, comprehensive investigation into an important issue.
Autorenporträt
Philip Alperson is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the editor of several books including The Philosophy of the Visual Arts (1992), What Is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (1994), and Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Music (1998). He is also the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
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"A rich and wonderfully varied collection. These compelling essays- fine examples of clear, politically engaged theorizing- explore many dimensions of community and communal change.Further, the authors challenge themselves and their readers toimagine concrete actions and policies that might turn their visionsof truly diverse communities into reality." Martha Ackelsberg,Smith College

"This significant and original collection of essays enablesscholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore a set of vexedyet centrally important questions about the meanings of community.Alperson has edited an impressively coherent volume whose authorsrefuse facile formulations, and instead develop insightful andoften profound analyses of the ideals and realities of community.This is a must-read book." Judith Gerson, RutgersUniversity