{"product_id":"dance-with-community-the-contemporary-debate-in-american-political-thought-revised-9780700606238","title":"Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought (Revised)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Booth Fowler\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of \"community.\" What does this tell us about American political thought? Why are intellectuals uneasy with modern liberal individualism and its institutional policy results? Why is political intellectual discourse dominated today by complaint?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Dance with Community\u003c\/i\u003e Robert Booth Fowler reflects upon these and related questions. \"My goal,\" he writes, \"is to present contemporary political thought about community for what it is--a conversation interactive, spirited, and sometimes tough.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere have been many interpretations of the much-discussed decline in community spirit. Rather than offer another, Fowler steps back to look at the debate itself. He examines from the perspective of an intellectual historian the attention to community in current American political thought and explores the setting of that attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also identifies five alternative models of community integral to the current debates and sketches a clear image of each--its relationship to others, the logic of its appeal, and its emphases and problems. In each instance he places the model into the larger conversation over alternative communities and the value of community itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615130337431,"sku":"9780700606238","price":3510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780700606238.webp?v=1775098237","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dance-with-community-the-contemporary-debate-in-american-political-thought-revised-9780700606238","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}