The community in the thought of Emmanuel Mounier

Abstract

Today's society, strongly marked by individualism, selfishness, consumerism, egocentrism and massification, is experiencing a huge problem when it comes to the real experience of the community. The modern man, a man of technology and information technology, needs to awaken to others, to interpersonal relationships. The personalist communitarian civilization proposed by Mounier appears as a cry of warning in the face of this depersonalized world. Addressing the theme of community involves the person himself, as both are like an inseparable pair, that is, “person and community are, as we say nowadays, in reciprocity of perspectives” This work will present a general concept of the personalist community and its construction that occurs in the struggle between individualism and collectivism. Soon after, the topic of communication is approached as a fundamental act for the community experience that has its beginning in the experience of the second person. Finally, the theme of love is approached in a general scope and then from a personalist perspective as the maximum expression of donation, after all, the person does not exist without the community and this only exists when formed by free people. The work was done through bibliographical research.