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Book SynopsisAn impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.
Trade Review"Revolt does not discourse, it growls. What does 'growl' mean? It's almost an onomatopoeia. It means to bawl, bellow, and roar. It means to shout together, to murmur, mumble, grouse, become indignant, protest, become enraged together. One tends to grumble alone but people growl in common. The common growl is a subterranean torrent: it passes underneath, making everything tremble."--from Jean-Luc Nancy's Foreword
Table of ContentsForeword: 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 Ranciere 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 Acknowledgments Works Cited List of Contributors Index
