ABSTRACT
"Toward a Global 'Thin' Community re-examines aspects of the liberal-communitarian debate. While critical of both traditions, this book argues that a coherent form of communitarianism is the only plausible option for citizens today. Using the theories of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, Olssen shows how we can overcome traditional problems with communitarianism by using an ethic of survival that he identifies in the writings of Nietzsche and others to provide a normative framework for twenty-first century politics at both national and global levels. "Thin" communitarianism seeks to surmount traditional objections associated with Hegel and Marx, and to safeguard liberty and difference by applying a robust idea of democracy."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction: The 'Thin' Community and Liberalism
part |43 pages
Two Thinkers
chapter |17 pages
Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Future
part |96 pages
Assembling Normative Theory
chapter |18 pages
A Post-Structuralist Approach to Community
chapter |19 pages
Toward a Social Theory of Practice
chapter |28 pages
Life as Good and Bad
chapter |29 pages
Universalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Ethics of the Future
part |75 pages
Toward a Global Thin Community