In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture

by Nancy E. Snow, Marilyn Friedman, Virginia Held, A Pablo Iannone, Andrew Mason

Overview

Political and public debate recently has centered on issues of community, family and culture. What are the boundaries of community, and why is community important? What constitutes a family, and is it the fundamental unit of a stable society? What difference does feminism make in our lives and in society? How do racial and cultural minorities affect culture as a whole? In the Company of Others brings together new and previously published essays by nine distinguished philosophers, who argue these questions from a variety of perspectives. Presenting traditional and non-traditional approaches, their essays challenge and refine recent thinking on issues of contemporary social and political importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847681457
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/23/1996
Series:	Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.48(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Nancy E. Snow is assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Community Chapter 2 Two Concepts of Community Chapter 3 Community, Diversity, and Confucianism Part 4 Family Chapter 5 Philosophers against the Family Chapter 6 Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination Chapter 7 On Care and Justice within the Family Part 8 Culture Chapter 9 Shaping Feminist Culture Chapter 10 Of Mothers and Families, Men and Sex: The Truth about Feminism Chapter 11 Procreative Liberty: Beyond Liberal, Radical, and Cultural Feminist Assessments Chapter 12 Longing for Home: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective Chapter 13 Cross-Cultural Ecologies: The Expatriate Experience, the Multiculturalism Issue, and Philosophy

Editorial Reviews

In a society which routinely debates "family values" and "diversity," this anthology offers some promising clarification and guidance.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy - V. L. W.

This volume will be of interest to philosophers and scholars concerned with a critique of the positions of some feminist thinkers on family, community, and culture.

Choice

In a society which routinely debates "family values" and "diversity," this anthology offers some promising clarification and guidance.
— V. L. W.

Ethics

This volume will be of interest to philosophers and scholars concerned with a critique of the positions of some feminist thinkers on family, community, and culture.

CHOICE

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