Published by Jane on 14 Mar 2009 at 05:00 pm
Thinkers About Community
Can anyone help with this?
I want to read a book of thinking about ‘community’.
I mean, by those inverted commas, something like a particular take on community: how people can be together, or why they do, or why it is in our DNA (is it?) and why the word has so much in the way of religous overtones… and is ‘community’ always semi-religous? I’d like it to be a thought-book rather than fiction… but I’m not very good at reading heavy duty philosophy.
I’d be happy if it was old… if it was great… but I’ll take what you got. Reading lists please.
Alison Walters on 15 Mar 2009 at 7:10 pm #
Hi Jane
Here are two that I know of:
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groups by Joseph Myers
Alison
Penny Markell on 18 Mar 2009 at 9:08 am #
One book that might fit your description is Soil and Soul by Alastair McIntosh which is about his involvement in some community activism ( such as the Eigg islanders trying to buy their island from the Laird), but also his personal philosophy and experience of the community he grew up in, the relationship of its people to each other and to the land, and the myths and tales about their part of Scotland. I loved it, both times I read it.
Penny