Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations.
* A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations.
* Discusses the idea of community in its full, cultural context.
* Deals with issues confronting many diverse groups, including African American, Franco-Canadian, computer-mediated, and gay and lesbian communities.
* Includes contributions by both eminent schlars and new voices, among them Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham.
Table of Content
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Diversity and Community: Philip Alperson (Temple
University).
Part I: Community and Its Contestations:.
1. Communities and Community: Critique and Retrieval: Jean
Bethke Elsthain (University of Chicago) and Christopher Beem
(Johnson Foundation).
2. Community at the Margin: Crispin Sartwell (Maryland Institute
College of Art).
3. Impure Communities: Maria Lugones (SUNY-Binghampton).
4. Identities: The Dynamical Dimensions of Diversity: Chuck Dyke
(Temple University) and Carl Dyke (Methodist College).
5. From Village to Global Contexts: Ideas, Types, and the Making
of Communities: D. A. Masolo (University of Louisville).
6. Obligation Across Generations: A Consideration in the
Understanding of Community Formation: Lewis R. Gordon (Brown
University).
Part II: Community, Constitutive Identities, and Resisting
Subjects:.
7. Citizenship or Transgression?: Dilemmas of the US Movement
for Lesbian/Gay Rights: Arlene Stein (Rutgers University).
8. Diversity, Inequality, and Community: African Americans and
People of Color in the United States: J. Blaine Hudson (University
of Louisville).
9. Renewing American Indian Nations: Cosmic Communities and
Spiritual Autonomy: Duane Champagne (University of California at
Los Angeles).
10. Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec: Frank
Cunningham (University of Toronto).
11. Love, Care, and Women’s Dignity: The Family as a
Privileged Community: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago).
12. Community and Society, Melancholy and Sociopathy: Osborne
Wiggins (University of Louisville) and Michael A. Schwartz (Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Part III: Community, Culture, and Education:.
13. The Role of Art in Sustaining Communities: Marcia Muelder
Eaton (University of Minnesota).
14. Images of Community in American Popular Culture: Eileen John
(University of Louisville) and Nancy Potter (University of
Louisville).
15. Virtual Communities: Chinatowns Made in America: Gary Y.
Okihiro (Columbia University).
16. Villages, Local and Global: Observations on
Computer-Mediated and Geographically Situated Communities: Samuel
Oluoch Imbo (Hamline University).
17. The University as a Universe of Communities: Mary
Hawkesworth (Rutgers University).
Index.
About the author
Philip Alperson is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the editor of several books including The Philosophy of the Visual Arts (1992), What Is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (1994), and Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Music (1998). He is also the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
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