Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World

by Craig J. Calhoun

Book Overview

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss. 'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745627846
• ISBN13: 9780745627847
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 250 Pages