Community Without Unity: A Politics of Derridian ExtravaganceDuke University Press, 1989 - 261 pages Winner of the 1990 Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association "First Book Award" Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this award-winning book breaks new ground by challenging traditional concepts of community in political theory. William Corlett brings the diverse (and sometimes contradictory) work of Foucault and Derrida to bear on the thought of Pocock, Burke, Lincoln, and McIntyre, among others, to move beyond the conventional dichotomy of "individual vs. community," arguing instead that community is best advanced within a politics of difference. |
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Page xii
... liberal , com- munitarian , and deconstructive turns over the past fifteen - odd years . Tracy directed my Ph.D. thesis in 1978 , continued to read more pages than either of us can remember , and deliv- ered a painfully close reading of ...
... liberal , com- munitarian , and deconstructive turns over the past fifteen - odd years . Tracy directed my Ph.D. thesis in 1978 , continued to read more pages than either of us can remember , and deliv- ered a painfully close reading of ...
Page xv
... mutual support to avoid a liberal deflection toward mere rights - based diversity . Against the backdrop of current debates on multicultural- ism , my argument connects with two key issues : Preface to the Paperback Edition.
... mutual support to avoid a liberal deflection toward mere rights - based diversity . Against the backdrop of current debates on multicultural- ism , my argument connects with two key issues : Preface to the Paperback Edition.
Page xvi
... liberalism that insists on treating all differ- ences in the same way and the reputation postmodern theory has acquired ... liberal colleagues cannot distinguish this plea for separation from George Wallace's plea for segre- gating white ...
... liberalism that insists on treating all differ- ences in the same way and the reputation postmodern theory has acquired ... liberal colleagues cannot distinguish this plea for separation from George Wallace's plea for segre- gating white ...
Page xviii
... liberal pluralism's blindness to power differentials . While the expres- sion can work well with emergent subject positions in dominant discourses , a more regressive politics goes down when time- honored images are at stake . Efforts ...
... liberal pluralism's blindness to power differentials . While the expres- sion can work well with emergent subject positions in dominant discourses , a more regressive politics goes down when time- honored images are at stake . Efforts ...
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... liberal age ; such discourse is about us . And yet our traditions depend upon our ability to transmit their content to others across time . Thus we lie at the center of a discourse in which we cannot become fully implicated : we are the ...
... liberal age ; such discourse is about us . And yet our traditions depend upon our ability to transmit their content to others across time . Thus we lie at the center of a discourse in which we cannot become fully implicated : we are the ...
Contents
Mutual Service and the Language of Domination | 6 |
Reciprocity Commonality Mutual Service | 16 |
Opening Up the Dialogue Between Remunity and Communion | 35 |
Reassurance | 65 |
Pocock Foucault Forces of Reassurance | 69 |
The Problem of Time in Lincolnian Political Religion | 91 |
The Power of Fear in Burkean Traditionalism | 118 |
Extravagance | 143 |
Announcing Derridian Confession Spacing Deferral Writing | 146 |
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