Community

by Gerard Delanty

Book Overview

The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics.

Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western Utopian thought, and as an imagined primitive state equated with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041523686X
• ISBN13: 9780415236867
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a good synopsis of literature on "community"

This is a great book to give scholars an overview of works that utilise the concept of community. It distills the various works by providing general frameworks that groups various works together. That kind of synthesis is invaluable.