ABSTRACT
Richard Cornuelle recognized that community falls into a blind spot between market and state. His work tries to understand and rally an independent third sector capable of addressing social ills and shows that charitable and service organizations share some of the virtues of enterprises in their ability to put innovative ideas into action. This chapter focuses on the holist understanding of community, bringing in Hayek to make the stakes clear. It develops the alternative intersubjective account of community-making, and then works out some of its implications. The chapter explores the question how social individuals understand each other, whether as customers or suppliers, borrowers or lenders, colleagues, co-religionists, kin, neighbours. It distinguishes the two resulting conceptions of community and knowledge to shorthand holist and intersubjective. It is an obvious and unavoidable consequence of the intersubjective approach to find uneven patterns of connection, including outright exclusion.
