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 xi
... social and political theory . Readers should struggle to erase this mistaken impression : Derrida does not offer a new " paradigm , " but read- ing his work can make worlds of difference . This book draws attention to the difference ...
... social and political theory . Readers should struggle to erase this mistaken impression : Derrida does not offer a new " paradigm , " but read- ing his work can make worlds of difference . This book draws attention to the difference ...
Page xv
... social justice in our communi- ties nevertheless continues making sense to all who can find enough mutual support to avoid a liberal deflection toward mere rights - based diversity . Against the backdrop of current debates on ...
... social justice in our communi- ties nevertheless continues making sense to all who can find enough mutual support to avoid a liberal deflection toward mere rights - based diversity . Against the backdrop of current debates on ...
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... social thinking . Foucault is an important postmodern name because his work resists reducing human beings to patterns of subjectivity . Far from celebrating the death of all structured thinking , Fou- cault's resistance can be ...
... social thinking . Foucault is an important postmodern name because his work resists reducing human beings to patterns of subjectivity . Far from celebrating the death of all structured thinking , Fou- cault's resistance can be ...
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... social construction . The second part examines some of the many ways in which these patterns of subjectivity are reassuring . The third part turns toward the abandonment of structure , in its affirmative sense . The chapters in the ...
... social construction . The second part examines some of the many ways in which these patterns of subjectivity are reassuring . The third part turns toward the abandonment of structure , in its affirmative sense . The chapters in the ...
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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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