Potency of the Common : Intercultural Perspectives about Community and Individuality.

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Preface ; Content ; Philosophical and Sociological Basics ; The Hermeneutical Constitution of "the Common" ; The Multiple Uses of 'Community' in Sociological Theory. Historical Type, Ideal Type, Political Utopia, Socio-technological Device and Ontological Foundation of 'Society'

Community, Recognition, and Individual Autonomy Community as Point of Origin and as Reason for Yearning. Reflections from Anthropological, Sociological and Political Perspectives ; Heterogeneity, Community and Cultural Configurations ; Community and Eventfulness.

Community and Money: An Approach from Moral Sociology Historical Structures ; Community and Individual Autonomy: Genealogy of a Challenge ; The Contemporary "Divinization" of Individual Human Beings, or the Difficult Community. A Metaphysical View.

Enduring Coherence and Distance. Monastic and Princely Communities in Medieval Europe "Singularitas" and Community. About a Relationship of Contradiction and Complement in Medieval Convents ; The Dark Side of Community -- Early Modern German Witch Hunts.

Considerations on the Role of Translation in the Building of Symphilosophy-Community by the Early German Romantics Cultural Identities ; The Bonds of the Liberated: On Community among Hindu Ascetics.

The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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