col⋅lec⋅tion
/kəˈlɛkʃən/ [kuh-lek-shuhn]
–noun
1. something that is collected; a group of objects or an amount of material accumulated in one location, esp. for some purpose or as a result of some process
“In thinking of community, we need to emphasize the process words: making, creating, weaving, saying and the like. Community cannot be produced simply through rational formulation nor through edict. Like freedom, it has to be achieved by persons offered the space in which to discover what they recognize together and appreciate in common; they have to find ways to make intersubjective sense. Again, it ought to be a space infused by the kind of imaginative awareness that enables those involved to imagine alternative possibilities for their own becoming and their group’s becoming. Community is not a question of which social contracts are the most reasonable for individuals to enter. It is a question of what might contribute to the pursuit of shared goods; what ways of of being together, of attaining mutuality, or reaching toward some common world.”
