The common growl : toward a poetics of precarious community / Thomas Claviez, editor.

No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriou...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Claviez, Thomas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Commonalities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : the common growl / Jean-Luc Nancy
  • Introduction: toward a poetics of community / Thomas Claviez
  • The poetics of Community
  • Community and ethnos / Robert J.C. Young
  • A metonymic community? Toward a poetics of contingency / Thomas Claviez
  • Poetics of anxiety and security : the problem of speech and action in our time / Homi K. Bhabha
  • Literature, the world, and you / Djelal Kadir
  • The politics of aesthetics
  • Literary communities / Jacques Rancière
  • Antiracism and (re)humanization / Paul Gilroy
  • Sociological reflections
  • Can society be commodities all the way down? Post-Polanyian reflections on capitalist crisis / Nancy Fraser
  • Two examples of recent aesthetico-political forms of community : occupy and sharing economy / Dietmar Wetzel.