Toward a Global Thin Community

"Toward a Global 'Thin' Community re-examines aspects of the liberal-communitarian debate. While critical of both traditions, this book argues that a coherent form of communitarianism is the only plausible option for citizens today. Using the theories of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, Olssen shows how we can overcome traditional problems with communitarianism by using an ethic of survival that he identifies in the writings of Nietzsche and others to provide a normative framework for twenty-first century politics at both national and global levels. "Thin" communitarianism seeks to surmount traditional objections associated with Hegel and Marx, and to safeguard liberty and difference by applying a robust idea of democracy." Chapter 1 Introduction: The 'Thin' Community and Liberalism; Part I Two Thinkers; Chapter 2 Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Future; Chapter 3 Foucault as 'Thin' Communitarian; Part II Assembling Normative Theory; Chapter 4 A Post-Structuralist Approach to Community; Chapter 5 Toward a Social Theory of Practice; Chapter 6 Life as Good and Bad; Chapter 7 Universalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Ethics of the Future; Part Three Toward a Global Thin Community; Chapter 8 The Necessity of Co-Ordination; Chapter 9 Communitarian Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 10 Toward a Global Thin Community;