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 xvi
... position . The people with the most " fair " and " objective " self - image often seem to be the least capable of ... positions so often associated with dominant cultures . Community Without Unity relates to these current debates by ...
... position . The people with the most " fair " and " objective " self - image often seem to be the least capable of ... positions so often associated with dominant cultures . Community Without Unity relates to these current debates by ...
Page xvii
... positions in relations of power . For example , when women and men students begin to participate equally in the classroom ... position becomes more noticeable every day : our expand- ing worlds , multiple cultures , can no longer afford ...
... positions in relations of power . For example , when women and men students begin to participate equally in the classroom ... position becomes more noticeable every day : our expand- ing worlds , multiple cultures , can no longer afford ...
Page xviii
... positions on an elapsing tune continuum . Celebrating difference — but never criticizing the reassur- ance made possible by linear time — works to affirm but never to supplement the self - images involved . This helps to explain why ...
... positions on an elapsing tune continuum . Celebrating difference — but never criticizing the reassur- ance made possible by linear time — works to affirm but never to supplement the self - images involved . This helps to explain why ...
Page xix
... positions of power in the academy . But these progressive colleagues often join the others in lamenting the lack of " qualified " applicants . Efforts to diversify are thwarted by a lack of different applicants who meet the going ...
... positions of power in the academy . But these progressive colleagues often join the others in lamenting the lack of " qualified " applicants . Efforts to diversify are thwarted by a lack of different applicants who meet the going ...
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... positions for signs of play . Postmodern writing plays with aban- don , then , by challenging uniformity , by searching for cracks in the foundations of political and social thinking . Foucault is an important postmodern name because ...
... positions for signs of play . Postmodern writing plays with aban- don , then , by challenging uniformity , by searching for cracks in the foundations of political and social thinking . Foucault is an important postmodern name because ...
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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