Political and public debate recently has centered on issues of
community, family and culture. What are the boundaries of community, and
why is community important? What constitutes a family, and is it the
fundamental unit of a stable society? What difference does feminism make
in our lives and in society? How do racial and cultural minorities
affect culture as a whole? In the Company of Others brings together new
and previously published essays by nine distinguished philosophers, who
argue these questions from a variety of perspectives. Presenting
traditional and non-traditional approaches, their essays challenge and
refine recent thinking on issues of contemporary social and political
importance.