Forms of Abstract "Community" From Tribe and Kingdom to Nation and State
Paul James
Apart from a few notable exceptions, the current retreat Grand Theory has been accompanied by reluctance to think about how we might theorize different forms of social formation. The present study began as an attempt understand one such community form, nation. However, in delineating analytical method that allowed theoretical space for exploring ontological contradictions endemic living part national community, it became necessary work comparatively across history and forms. In doing so, article argues conceives various kinds human formed changing contradictory intersections (diacritically distinguishable) levels integration—from most embodied ties face-to-face reciprocity abstract relations strangers-in-association exemplified electronic communications "information capitalism."
Philosophy of the Social Sciences