I just learned one of my most passionate and active supporters with whom I have regular contact, was not aware of my position in Thomas Wood's bibliography for his academic studies of the Communitarian Residence Life Movement. The ACL has it's own category heading, and this compilation of my work goes all the way back to my speech at the Libertarian Party Convention in April 2001. This is THE MOST thorough overview of communitarian writers and thinkers in existence. Even if I wasn't included I would highly recommend it as a source for further study. But, in genuine academic spirit, Wood included my many, many contrary papers on the subject. That my ACL topic pages and articles at newswithviews are included is really, now that I think about it again, all the "credibility" I need. Funny that I haven't given it a more prominent position on my websites. Rereading it now and as far as I'm concerned, it's my academic resume.
Regardless of whether you're in favor of or opposed to communitarianism, it is now a proven fact that it cannot be the final perfect, ultimate dialectical synthesis, because it has valid opposition (us). The final synthesis is supposed to be so perfect there arises no antithesis. If the next step is transcendence as Bobby has found, then we are playing a role in the dialectical evolution of Utopia just because we oppose the forced evolution of our society. I'm dazzled by the brilliance of their finding such an effective way of using my opposition to help them win their covert coup. So our inclusion in this biblio is a double edged sword. Scholarly recognition means our antithesis exists, and that means we're already yesterday's news (before most people have heard of it!).
The NAS is the National Association of Scholars:
http://www.nas.org/postings/how_many_delawares/communitarian-bibliography.htm
Regardless of whether you're in favor of or opposed to communitarianism, it is now a proven fact that it cannot be the final perfect, ultimate dialectical synthesis, because it has valid opposition (us). The final synthesis is supposed to be so perfect there arises no antithesis. If the next step is transcendence as Bobby has found, then we are playing a role in the dialectical evolution of Utopia just because we oppose the forced evolution of our society. I'm dazzled by the brilliance of their finding such an effective way of using my opposition to help them win their covert coup. So our inclusion in this biblio is a double edged sword. Scholarly recognition means our antithesis exists, and that means we're already yesterday's news (before most people have heard of it!).
The NAS is the National Association of Scholars:
