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
... thinking raises the second current issue connected with this book . According to some detractors , the specter of de- construction threatens to dismantle such categories as African American , gay man , lesbian woman , laborer , or any ...
... thinking raises the second current issue connected with this book . According to some detractors , the specter of de- construction threatens to dismantle such categories as African American , gay man , lesbian woman , laborer , or any ...
Page xvii
... thinking — which side are you on ? —often works well in debates concerning labor dis- putes , curricular reform , civil rights struggles , etc. , because it facilitates inversions of power differentials between groups . The question ...
... thinking — which side are you on ? —often works well in debates concerning labor dis- putes , curricular reform , civil rights struggles , etc. , because it facilitates inversions of power differentials between groups . The question ...
Page xviii
... thinking more extravagantly about either - or oppositions than one might at first suspect . Community Without Unity argues that the " both - and " approach to binary couples must even in- clude the line of time . Appreciating differance ...
... thinking more extravagantly about either - or oppositions than one might at first suspect . Community Without Unity argues that the " both - and " approach to binary couples must even in- clude the line of time . Appreciating differance ...
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... 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 politicized to ...
... 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 politicized to ...
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... thinking . The political prospects for community , however , are not as clear ; indeed , the shared oneness at the center of recent communitarian thinking cannot survive Fou- cauldian criticism . But Derrida's work can also contribute ...
... thinking . The political prospects for community , however , are not as clear ; indeed , the shared oneness at the center of recent communitarian thinking cannot survive Fou- cauldian criticism . But Derrida's work can also contribute ...
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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