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dc.contributor.authorFowler, Robert Booth
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T20:41:26Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T20:41:26Z
dc.date.issued1991-07-25
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7006-3091-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/32207
dc.descriptionRobert Booth Fowler is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2002. His books include The Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought and Unconventional Partners: Religion and American Liberal Culture.

With a New Foreword by Susan McWilliams Barndt.
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dc.descriptionThis Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
dc.description.abstractContemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of *#8220;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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dc.format.extentxii, 210 pp.
dc.publisherUniversity Press of Kansasen_US
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dc.rights© 1991, 2021 by the University Press of Kansas. All rights reserved. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public Licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.titleThe Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thoughten_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17161/1808.32207
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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