Comunidade e eticidade: uma contribuição à aventura sociológica no pensamento de Martin Buber

Abstract

Our investigation shall reflect upon the concept of Community in M. Buber, trying to approximate him to a perspective which we can denominate ethicity. Considering his respective contribution: the Dialogy, as the main source of every human relation. In this work, we are going to check specifically the way the author approaches the treme of Community in confrontation with the moden world and its depersonalizing and anonymous forces, above which, there is a homeless individual. In doing so, we are going to avail of the contributions from the classics of sociology such as: Tönnies, Durkheim and Weber. This way, we are going to in a second moment, analyzing the Community in the liquid Modernity from the theoretical orientations of Zigmunt Bauman. In his work, we are going to discern indistinctly the non-viability of community in a society where the individuality and the identity are fluid, and the only forms of existent communities are nothing but solitary communities. Nevertheless, we are going to the point we consider the decisive one in our analysis, reflecting upon the dialogical perspective of community, aiming to open ways to a more anthropological and phenomenological reflection of its concept, and, principally, giving sociology the important contribution of Martin Buber s thoughts. His perspective points to the Community as a means of dialogue, acknowledgment of the other, as well as, realization of the human being in the public space. On this consists our contribution to the sociological adventure concerning the theme of community.