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As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover the...
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that diff...
How to Build Community in a Divided World
Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to com...
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Drawing on examples from many places and times, this work argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing r...
The Bases of Social Order, Revolution, and Relegitimation
Social order results from a complex interaction of individual actions, institutional structures, and cultural norms. But just how do they relate to on...
The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of civil society and much discussed by social and politic...
Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea o...
Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
'Rethinking Pluralism' suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notatio...
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Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition
Many critical political issues revolve around religion and tolerance. The predominant approach espouses liberal humanistic virtue. These doctrines fai...
Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization
Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation build...