Description: All in the Family : On Community and Incommensurability, Paperback by Ferguson, Kennan, ISBN 0822351900, ISBN-13 9780822351900, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is often the scene of intense interpersonal conflict and disagreement. In All in the Family , the political theorist Kennan Ferguson reconsiders the family, in its varied forms, as an exemplar of democratic politics and suggests how real rather than idealized family dynamics can help us to better understand and navigate political conflict. By closely observing the attachments that arise in families despite profound disagreements and incommensurabilities, Ferguson argues, we can imagine a political engagement that accommodates radical differences without sacrificing community. After examining how the concept of the family has been deployed and misused in political philosophy, Ferguson turns to the ways in which families actually operate: the macropolitical significance of family coping strategies such as silence and the impact that disability and caregiving have on conceptions of spatiality, sameness, and disparity. He also considers the emotional attachment between humans and their pets as an acknowledgment that compassion and community can exist even under conditions of profound difference.
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Book Title: All in the Family : on Community and Incommensurability
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Author: Kennan Ferguson
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
