Community – the career of a concept between compassion, tribalism and intention
Dates : from May 16 to 18, 2018 at the ENS Lyon and the University of Lyon
A key concept in the constitution of modernity which has been influential in all the human and social sciences is that of community, which, according to Raymond Plant’s judgement in 1974, suffered from insufficient questioning, analysis and theory. While we find the term community, Gemeinschaft, communauté, comunidad in use in the cultural areas we propose to deal with primarily, we find that that the social and political debates have, to an extent, been cloistered within languages, with periodic openings through cultural transfers, notably through the translation of academic works, leading to international debate. Community shall be at the centre of an international conference, entitled “Community: the career of a concept between compassion, tribalism and intention” organized at the research centre IHRIM within the excellence cluster, Constitution de la Modernité (COMOD) at the Institut des Sciences de l’Homme in collaboration with numerous partner research centres. It will take place at the ENS de Lyon and the University of Lyon.
Organising committee
Astruc, Rémi, professeur de littératures francophones et comparées à l’Université Cergy-Pontoise, Agora
Bond Niall, historien des idées, Université Lyon 2, IHRIM
