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Who is This 'We'?

Absence of Community

Edited by Eleanor Godway and Geraldine Finn

Although the essays in this collection range over the whole spectrum of human experience, they all recognize a diminished sense of what a community is in today's fragmented world. Several of them draw creatively on recent and contemporary themes and thinkers, and some have found postmodernism and deconstructionism to be helpful resources.

Contributors include: Barendt Kiefte, Anna Antonopoulos, Karim Benammar, Donna Jowett, Howard Richards, Chris Lind, Rick Harp, Sonja Embree.

COMMUNITY STUDIES

185 pages
Paperback ISBN: 1-551640-04-X $19.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-551640-05-8 $48.99
L.C. No. 94-071246

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@TITLE = WHO IS THIS `WE'? @SUBTITLE = Absence of Community @AUTHOR = ELEANOR M. GODWAY AND GERALDINE FINN, eds. @BULLET1 = Leaping the gap between ethics and politics. @BULLET = Plotting the progress of community development in the twentieth century. @BULLET = Meeting at the crossroads: changing the way we think about `community'. Although the essays in this collection range over the whole spectrum of human experience, they all recognize a diminished sense of what a community is in today's fragmented world. Several of them draw creatively on recent and contemporary themes and thinkers, and some have found postmodernism and deconstruction to be helpful resources (especially Gayatri Spivak), but all are committed to trying to transcend the present impasses the status quo of institutionalized alienation and injustice. Contributors include: Barendt Kiefte, Anna Antonopoulos, Karim Benammar, Donna Jowett, Howard Richards, Chris Lind, Rick Harp, Sonja Embree. Eleanor M. Godway is associate professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University. She has published articles on Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray and edited an issue of Listening: A Journal of Religion and Culture. Geraldine Finn is associate professor of cultural studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. She is co-editor (with Angela Miles) of Feminism (see p. 26). @AUTHOR @TITLE = Who is this 'We'? In Search of Empowerment Eleanor M. Godway & Geraldine Finn, eds. @SWFLYDESC TOP = Description: The elusive character of what we mean by we is studied by way of contemporary philosophy, sociological analysis, & personal & @SWFLY DESCRIP = reflective essays. This book provides a deconstructive critique of what has been taken for granted as to the nature & requirements of community . @TOPLINE BODY = Contents: Eleanor Godway (Central Connecticut State Univ.) & Geraldine Finn (Carleton Univ., Ottawa): Community: Catachresis: Community. Donna Jowett (Univ. of Ottawa): Origins, Occupations, & the Proximity of the Neighbour. Karim Benammar (Ph.D, Penn State Univ.): Absences of Community. Rick Harp (CBC producer): Native by Nature? Anna Antonopoulos (Univ. of Calgary): The Politics of 'Home'. Sonja Embree (M.A., Psychoanalytic Theory, Univ. of Ottawa): Women's Studies & the Search for Identity. Geraldine Finn: The Space between Ethics & Politics. Christopher Lind (St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon): When the System Farms the Farmers: What Can We Do About the Saskatchewan Farm Crisis. Howard Richards (Earlham College, Santa Barbara, CA): Poverty. Barend Kiefte (Ph.D, McMaster Univ.): Gilles Deleuze: The Ethic of Difference & the Becoming-absent of Community. Eleanor Godway: Deconstructing Privilege: Reflecting on Audre Lorde & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 203 pages, references . ISBN: 1-551640-04-X $19.99 @RUNNING FOOT = Page 2 - Women's Studies, Social Work, & Urban Studies Although the essays range over the whole spectrum of human experience, the one thing that they have in common is a recognition of a diminished sense of what a community is in today's fragmented world. Several of them draw creatively on recent and contemporary themes and thinkers, and some have found postmodernism and deconstruction to be helpful resources (especially Gayatri Spivak), but all are committed to trying to transcend the present impasses the status quo of institutionalized alienation and injustice. Contributors include Anna Antonopoulos, Karim Benammar, Sonja Embree, Rick Harp, Donna Jowett, Barend Kiefte, Christopher Lind, and Howard Richards. About the editors Eleanor M. Godway is associate professor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University. She has published articles on Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray and edited an issue of Listening: A Journal of Religion and Culture. Geraldine Finn is associate professor of cultural studies at Carleton University. She is co-editor (with Angela Miles) of Feminism. @ISBN = @ISBN = Paperback ISBN: 1-551640-04-X $19.99 @ISBN = Hardcover ISBN: 1-551640-05-8 $48.99