Concept of Community from a Global Perspective

Niall Bond, Ph.D. (1991), Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Habilitation (2010), Ecole d'hautes études en sciences sociales, is an associate professor at University Lyon 2, where he is a historian of social and political thought at IHRIM and a research fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Johannesburg.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionNiall Bond1 Community The Career of a Concept between Compassion and TribalismNiall BondPart 1Classical Formulations of Community and Ferdinand Tönnies2 Tönnies and Hegel on the Ethical StateChristopher Adair-Toteff3 Notes on Community and the Common in MarxDaniel Alvaro4 Ferdinand Tönnies’ Emerging School Academic Sociability and the Awakening of GemeinschaftAlexander Wierzock5 Günther Rudolph – A Sketch of the Life and Work of a Tönnies Scholar in East Germany On the Reception of Tönnies’ Work by the LeftSebastian Klauke6 Ferdinand Tönnies and the French-Speaking WorldNiall Bond7 When the Dream (Almost) Came True European Community from Ideology to InstitutionsAntonin CohenPart 2Disciplinary, Literary, and Artistic Expressions of Community8 Community between Horde and Herd A Corpus StudyJan Buts9 Community as a “Near-Concept” Essay on Socio-anthropological TypologyStéphane Vibert10 What Does a Constitution Look Like? Community and the Powerful Narrative of MythRémi Astruc11 Laughing Together as a Strategy of Survivance for Native American CommunitiesElisabeth Bouzonviller12 Community and MusicNiall BondPart 3The Trajectory of the Notion of Community across the World13 Community and the (Liberal) IndividualFrançoise Orazi14 The Anatomy of the PeopleAndrew Vincent15 The Boundaries of Faith How Religious Communities Negotiate SpaceAstrid von Busekist16 Communal Life beyond the State Radical Utopianism in South Africa, Japan, and Jamaica (1900–1950)Robert Kramm17 Community in African Moral-Political PhilosophyThaddeus MetzIndex