Esmé Partridge

Occasional writer. Senior Researcher @Civitas_UK. Fellow @Civic_future. MPhil Philosophy of Religion @Cambridge_Uni

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My first long essay in a while - on Platonic and Chinese philosophies of music and how they relate to the decline of civilisation

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@VitaliJames @Waterstones Amazing!

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‘Bodin, who Nisbet cites, wrote that guilds are a powerful social force because they are founded on amitié or friendship, which has a spiritual quality; they represent souls coming together through shared loves’

My latest on guilds, associations and The Quest for Community👇

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@mgscotttt The one weekend I'm not there :(

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@j_amesmarriott Congrats!

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@OBEhizele Love this

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‘The problem with attempts to recreate community is that they lack any real socioeconomic function - and it was precisely this function, Nisbet argues, that once energised communities and individuals’ identification with them’

Me on community-maxxing for @TheCriticMag 👇

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@pastasnack_e Hahah hard relate

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@johnmilbank3 My dream

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@llisjak TQfC is one of those books where if you wrote it you’d feel accomplished for the rest of your life. Magnum opus

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I wrote about the relevance of Nisbet to the contemporary quest for community and, its latest incarnation, ‘community-maxxing’:

https://t.co/wOY9nPkeT0

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In 1953, Robert Nisbet argued that the reason we feel a crisis of belonging is because local communities no longer hold real political or economic power. Once, they were involved in essential problem-solving and decision-making - making individuals feel truly part of something

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As a result, Nisbet says, communities may still exist, but ‘have become functionally irrelevant to our state and economy and meaningless to the moral aspirations of individuals’

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“Community” has to be about more than leisure, writes @EsmeLKPartridge. We have to be genuinely important to each other
https://t.co/8lmrjARXap

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Real community spirit is very difficult to achieve without real obligations to others!

Fascinating from @EsmeLKPartridge 👇

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@IsabelPat1886 Thank you!

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the inimitable esmé on nisbet & community-maxxing. best way to start a sunday!

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@mgscotttt Thank you Marianna!! So kind of you 🤍