The community, from myths to law. A comparison between Gemeinschaft and Comunidad
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Roberto Cammarata
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/47
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 105-120 File size 5575 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2013-047009
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The article shows a comparison between two ideas or ‘models’ of community, Tönnies Gemeinschaft, reworked by Schmitt, and the Latin American indigenous peoples’ Comunidad. A comparison that starts from the respective origin myths (the biblical Genesis on one hand, and the Maya cosmogony narrated in the Popol Vuh on the other) and arrives at the reflections on the subject of rights and freedoms that these narratives still produce today, in contemporary intercultural societies. The study focuses in particular on how the element of identity and belonging to a community can be used to motivate policies and laws oriented to the exclusion or inclusion, to discrimination or emancipation.
Roberto Cammarata, La comunità, dai miti al diritto. Un confronto tra Gemeinschaft e Comunidad in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 47/2013, pp 105-120, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2013-047009