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Talking About Difference: Meanings And Metaphors Of Individuality, Gregory S. Alexander
Talking About Difference: Meanings And Metaphors Of Individuality, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This paper discusses the relationship between communitarianism and difference theory. Specifically, it focuses on the rhetorical practices that have created an apparent conflict between difference theory and communitarianism. My purpose is to suggest why this conflict dissolves when community and difference are understood as strategic rhetorics that share a common political vision.
Dilemmas Of Group Autonomy: Residential Associations And Community, Gregory S. Alexander
Dilemmas Of Group Autonomy: Residential Associations And Community, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
We are a society of groups. De Tocqueville's observation that the principle of association shapes American society remains as valid today as it was in the mid-nineteenth century. For us, as for others, the vita activa is participation in a seemingly limitless variety of groups. The importance of group activity in our national character has strongly influenced the agenda of political questions that recur in American political and legal theory. One of the fundamental normative questions on this agenda concerns the proper relationship between groups and the polity. To what extent should the polity foster connections between associations and the …