Community - Couverture souple

Reiner, J. Toby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 150955209X ISBN 13 : 9781509552092

Editeur : Polity Press, 2025

Synopsis

People often yearn for a sense of belonging and connection: they long to live in a meaningful community. In the modern age, however, this often seems to be a chimera. Does modernity doom us to be atomised individuals? Does the promise of community imply a loss of autonomy and freedom and entrench inequality and hierarchy?

In this book, J. Toby Reiner examines the debates surrounding community in modern political and social thought. He outlines how liberals, conservatives, socialists, and nationalists have historically conceived of the ties that bind together political communities, and how recent political philosophers such as Rawls, Taylor, Walzer, and Sandel have debated the nature and merits of community in the contemporary world. He goes on to consider how prominent conceptions of community relate to and are in tension with characteristically modern ideals such as equality and freedom. He deftly shows how a meaningful conception of community can be reconciled with the demands of modern liberal societies.

Filled with real-life examples and thought-provoking discussions of the key debates, this book will be essential reading for students of contemporary political theory and philosophy and of sociology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. Toby Reiner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College and the author of Michael Walzer (Polity, 2020).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150955209X
• ISBN 13: 9781509552092
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible