Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Communitarian Reader PDF full book. Access full book title The Communitarian Reader by Amitai Etzioni. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Amitai Etzioni Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742542181 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
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.
Author: Amitai Etzioni Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742542181 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
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.
Author: Amitai Etzioni Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 0742578690 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 363
Book Description
This outstanding new book shows why communitarian thought has had such a profound influence on contemporary American public policy, from strengthening our neighborhoods to fighting AIDS and educating our children. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Communitarian Network and author of the best-selling books The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule, this comprehensive collection contains essays written by the nation's most respected thinkers. See why politicians as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Jack Kemp view communitarian social philosophy as the most practical way of restoring America's communities and redeeming its political institutions.
Author: Amitai Etzioni Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780847688272 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
This book shows why communitarian thought has had such a profound influence on contemporary public policy - from strengthening neighbourhoods to fighting AIDS and educating children.
Author: Beau Breslin Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801885389 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Bowling Alone, the title of Robert Putnam's 1995 article (later a bestselling book) perfectly captured a sense of national unease: Somewhere along the way, America had become a nation divided by apathy, and the bonds that held together civil society were disappearing. But while the phrase resonated with our growing sense of atomization, it didn't describe a new phenomenon. The fear that isolation has eroded our social bonds had simmered for at least two decades, when communitarianism first emerged as a cogent political philosophy. Communitarianism, as explained in the works of Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Amitai Etzioni, and others, elevates the idea of communal good over the rights of individuals. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, communitarianism gained popular and political ground. The Clintons touted its principles in the '90s, and the two presidents Bush make frequent references to its central tenets. In its short life, the philosophy has generated plenty of books, both pro and con. Beau Breslin's authoritative and original examination, The Communitarian Constitution, contributes to the debate from a wholly original standpoint. Existing critiques focus on the debate between liberalism and communitarianism—in other words, the conflict between individual rights and the communal good. Breslin takes an entirely different stance, examining the pragmatic question of whether or not communitarian policies are truly practicable in a constitutional society. In tackling this question, Breslin traces the evolution of American communitarianism. He examines Lincoln's unconstitutional Civil War suspension of habeas corpus and draws on Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments, pegging the Anti-Federalists as communitarians' intellectual forebearers. He also grounds his arguments in the real world, examining the constitutions of Germany and Israel, which offer further insight into the relationship between constitutionalism and communitarianism. At a moment when American politicians and citizenry are struggling to balance competing needs, such as civil rights and homeland security, The Communitarian Constitution is vital reading for anyone interested in the evolving tensions between individual rights and the good of the community.
Author: Daniel A. Bell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting and defending a distinctively communitarian theory against the objections of a liberal critic. In a Paris cafe Anne, a strong supporter of communitarian ideals, and Philip, her querulous critic, debate the issues. Drawing on the works of such thinkers as Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, and Alasdair MacIntyre, Anne attacks liberalism's individualistic view of the person by pointing to our social embeddedness. She then develops Michael Walzer's idea that political thinking involves the interpretation of shared meanings emerging from the political life of a community, and rebuts Philip's criticism that this approach damages her case by being conservative and relativistic. She goes on to develop a justification of communal life and to answer the criticism that communitarians lack an alternative moral and political vision. The book ends with two later discussions, by Will Kymlicka and Daniel Bell, in which Anne and another friend, Louise, argue about the merits of the book's earlier debate and put it in perspective. Daniel Bell's book is a provocative defence of a distinctively communitarian theory which will stimulate interest and debate among both students of political theory and those approaching the subject for the first time.
Author: Martin Kusch Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199251371 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
Martin Kusch puts forth two controversial ideas: that knowledge is a social status (like money or marriage) and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. He defends the radical implications of his views: that knowledge is political, and that it varies with communities. This bold approach to epistemology is a challenge to philosophy and the wider academic world.
Author: James Arthur Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780750709552 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
This text places communitarianism within current debates about topical ideas such as character building, the role of parents, the community and the individual, values education, citizenship, community education, standards and enviroment in schools.
Author: Mark S. Cladis Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804723656 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Beau Breslin
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Author: Martin Kusch
Author: James Arthur
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Mark S. Cladis
Author: Stephen Mulhall