The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon 0367362031, 9780367362034
A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally pub
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English Pages 290 Year 2019
Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Foreword to the 2019 Edition
Original Title
Original Copyright
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
A socio-historical model of countercultures
The comparative analysis of communal groups
2 Beginners
People
The group myth
Initial collective life
Early failure
3 Time and communal life
Time in the established order
On the phenomenology of time
Time orientations in communal groups
The diachronic worldly utopia
Synchronic time in communal groups
Apocalyptic time in communal groups
The end of history and utopian times
4 The social enactment of communal life
Attention, meaning and the enactment of communal life
The natural communal world
Produced communal worlds
Transcendental engagement in the phenomenal world
Summary
5 Needs, want satisfaction and work
Old and new bases of want satisfaction
Time, social enactment and want satisfaction
Strategies of resource acquisition
Labor substitution and production of goods
Organization of work
Work discipline and legitimation
Efficiency and effectiveness
6 Government
Sources of governing formations
The political process
Communal governments and crises of legitimacy
Summary
7 Conclusion
Domination and meaning in the established order
Communal groups: emergences and ideal types
Communal groups and utopian diffusion
Some speculations on the contemporary situation
Appendix 1 Some theoretical and methodological considerations
Appendix 2 Descriptions of communal groups included in the study
Appendix 3 Methods of research
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Foreword to the 2019 Edition
Original Title
Original Copyright
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
A socio-historical model of countercultures
The comparative analysis of communal groups
2 Beginners
People
The group myth
Initial collective life
Early failure
3 Time and communal life
Time in the established order
On the phenomenology of time
Time orientations in communal groups
The diachronic worldly utopia
Synchronic time in communal groups
Apocalyptic time in communal groups
The end of history and utopian times
4 The social enactment of communal life
Attention, meaning and the enactment of communal life
The natural communal world
Produced communal worlds
Transcendental engagement in the phenomenal world
Summary
5 Needs, want satisfaction and work
Old and new bases of want satisfaction
Time, social enactment and want satisfaction
Strategies of resource acquisition
Labor substitution and production of goods
Organization of work
Work discipline and legitimation
Efficiency and effectiveness
6 Government
Sources of governing formations
The political process
Communal governments and crises of legitimacy
Summary
7 Conclusion
Domination and meaning in the established order
Communal groups: emergences and ideal types
Communal groups and utopian diffusion
Some speculations on the contemporary situation
Appendix 1 Some theoretical and methodological considerations
Appendix 2 Descriptions of communal groups included in the study
Appendix 3 Methods of research
Bibliography
Index
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- John R. Hall
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