Pointing to the relentlessly public and communitarian character of ancient-Greek society, with its clan allegiances, its endless rounds of athletic games and artistic competitions, its jammed calendar of civic and religious festivals, they wonder whether "personal" poetry, as we understand the term, even existed for someone like Sappho.
Over the course of a fateful afternoon some are wowed, dreams are fulfilled and crushed and fulfilled, people are drugged but everything sorta works out and the characters demonstrate communitarian joy that can come from events like these.
There isn't a Social Darwinist bone in his body, and Ayn Rand may very well be his ideological antipode". Indeed, since I've been following his narrative since the mid-70s, Springsteen has written about loners most of all in terms of his characters - but a communitarian theme most of all in his commentary.
In opposition to Held, Habermas, and other defenders of global democracy, communitarian-minded skeptics underscore the purportedly utopian character of such proposals, arguing that democratic politics presupposes deep feelings of trust, commitment, and belonging that remain uncommon at the transnational level.
Liberals and libertarians responded by characterizing the communitarian position as akin to East Asian authoritarian communitarianism.
The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c.
All religions are communitarian religions.
The disjunction between Facebook's sunny communitarian promise and these ambient tremors of unease — the paradox of a deep loneliness in a world of friendship — is summed up in the character of Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Is it intergovernmental, or is it communitarian.
Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies.
Hou's ethos is militantly communitarian.
