Communitarian Reader

Beyond the Essentials
Herausgeber: Volmert, Andrew; Rothschild, Elanit

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Produktbeschreibung

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers reflecting on issues ranging from moral obligations to civil liberties after 9/11. The result is a book both practical and theoretical, and an essential guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780742542198
• ISBN-10: 074254219X
• Artikelnr.: 20980754

Autorenporträt

Amitai Etzioni is the founder of the communitarian movement and university professor at George Washington University. He is the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, a communitarian quarterly and the author of numerous books on political and social theory, including The New Golden Rule and My Brother's Keeper. Andrew Volmert is completing his PhD at Yale University. Elanit Rothschild is mangaging editor of The Responsive Community.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Responsive Community Platform: Rights and Responsibilities
Part 3 I Theory and Social Philosophy
Chapter 4 No Community, No Democracy
Chapter 5 Combining Value Pluralism and Moral Universalism: Isaiah Berlin
and Beyond
Chapter 6 Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies
Chapter 7 On a Communitarian Faith
Chapter 8 Are Particularistic Obligations Justified? A Communitarian
Examination
Part 9 II The Communitarian Society
Chapter 10 Enforcing Norms: When the Law Gets in the Way
Chapter 11 Social Mores Are Not Enough
Chapter 12 Confessions of an Alleged Libertarian (and the Virtues of "Soft"
Communitarianism)
Chapter 13 The Contours of Remoralization
Chapter 14 The Duty to Rescue: A Liberal Communitarian Approach
Chapter 15 Does Socioeconomic Inequality Undermine Community? Implications
for Communitarian Theory
Chapter 16 Americans as Communitarians: An Empirical Study
Part 17 III Community
Chapter 18 Developing Civil Society: Can the Workplace Replace Bowling?
Chapter 19 Self-Sacrifice, Self-Fulfillment, and Mutuality: The Evolution
of Marriage
Chapter 20 Peer Marriage
Chapter 21 Community and the Corner Store: Retrieving Human-Scale Commerce
Chapter 22 Boston's Ten Point Coalition: A Faith-Based Approach to Fighting
Crime in the Inner City
Chapter 23 Can Design Make Community?
Part 24 IV Communitarian Policies
Chapter 25 Rights and Responsibilities, 2001
Chapter 26 Confusing Freedom with License-Licenses Terrorism, Not Freedom
Chapter 27 We Can Strike a Balance on Civil Liberties
Chapter 28 Liberal Sectarianism? Social Capital, Religious Communities, and
Public Funds
Chapter 29 The Benefits of Surveillance?
Chapter 30 Military Secrets and First Amendment Values
Chapter 31 Diversity Within Unity: A New Approach to Immigrants and
Minorities
Part 32 V Dialogues
Chapter 33 Virtue and the State: A Dialogue between a Communitarian and a
Social Conservative
Chapter 34 Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Good: A Dialogue on
Communitarianism and Classical Liberalism