Contemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of
"community." What does this tell us about American political
thought? Why are intellectuals uneasy with modern liberal
individualism and its institutional policy results? Why is
political intellectual discourse dominated today by complaint?
"In The Dance with Community" Robert Booth Fowler reflects upon
these and related questions. "My goal," he writes, "is to present
contemporary political thought about community for what it is--a
conversation interactive, spirited, and sometimes tough."
There have been many interpretations of the much-discussed
decline in community spirit. Rather than offer another, Fowler
steps back to look at the debate itself. He examines from the
perspective of an intellectual historian the attention to community
in current American political thought and explores the setting of
that attention.
He also identifies five alternative models of community integral
to the current debates and sketches a clear image of each--its
relationship to others, the logic of its appeal, and its emphases
and problems. In each instance he places the model into the larger
conversation over alternative communities and the value of
community itself.
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