Community: The Tie That Binds

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This is a study, rooted in philosophical anthropology and metaphysics, of the meaning of community, which discusses such questions as what constitutes a community, what its language reveals, how to distinguish genuine community from its counterfeits, how a community is established and grows, how it is weakened and destroyed and how it is related to religion, praxis and to law.

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...clearly and compactly written. * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *
Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought.... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *
Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *
...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. * Review of Metaphysics *
...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. * Review of Metaphysics *
...clearly and compactly written. * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *
Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought.... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *
Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America * American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *

Author Bio

Mary F. Rousseau is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.