Communication and Community: Anglo-German Perspectives Book

	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Communication and community	1
1	Some reflections on human nature, communication and community	13
2	Community: concept, conception, and ideology	20
3	Citizenship and community: the promise of social citizenship	49
4	The import of pragmatism in Britain and Germany	71
5	Community, subjectivity and selfhood	90
6	What does it mean to be an 'American' - or a 'European', or an 'Indian'?	102
7	Travels in Hyperreality revisited: On communities real and imagined	111
8	Community, beyond communication	123
9	Female suffrage and politics for women in Germany	141
10	What the butler didn't see: Discourse and ideology in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day	150
11	Ilse Aichinger: her language and her self	164
12	Percipere aut percipi: India in the British press	177
13	The collapse of the GDR and the language of German unification	189
14	Communication or incommensurability?: Some contested issues in social work theory and practice	212