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Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy, and future of liberalism and liberal societies. Amitai Etzioni has collected a sterling list of contributors who bring communitarian thinking to bear on such timely and contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech, and personal autonomy. These essays cross disciplinary lines and connect the ivory tower to the world beyond.
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New Communitarian Thinking : Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities Constitutionalism and Democracy
author
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Etzioni, Amitai.
publisher
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University of Virginia Press
isbn10 | asin
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0813915643
print isbn13
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9780813915647
ebook isbn13
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9780585120973
language
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English
subject
Social ethics, Communitarianism, Liberalism, Democracy.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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HM216.N44 1995eb
ddc
:
303.3/72
subject
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Social ethics, Communitarianism, Liberalism, Democracy.
Page i
New Communitarian Thinking
Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities
Page ii
CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY
KERMIT HALL AND DAVID O'BRIEN, EDITORS
Kevin T. McGuire The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community
Mark Tushnet, ed. The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective
David N. Mayer The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
F. Thornton Miller Juries and Judges versus the Law: Virginia's Provincial Legal Perspective, 1783-1828
Martin Edelman Courts, Politics, and Culture in Israel
Tony Freyer Producers versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America
Amitai Etzioni, ed. New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities
Page iii
New Communitarian Thinking
Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities
EDITED BY AMITAI ETZIONI
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Charlottesville and London
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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA
Copyright 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
FIRST PUBLISHED 1995
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
New communitarian thinking: persons, virtues, institutions, and communities / edited by Amitai Etzioni. p. cm. (Constitutionalism and democracy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8139-1564-3. ISBN 0-8139-1569-4 (paper) 1. Social ethics. 2. Community. 3. Liberalism. 4. Democracy. I. Etzioni, Amitai. II. Series. HM216.N44 1995 303.3'72 dc20 94-30415 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Page v
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
Old Chestnuts and New Spurs
Amitai Etzioni
16
Political Theory: The Communitarian Challenge
1 Communitarian Liberalism
Thomas A. Spragens, JR.
37
2 The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism
Michael Walzer
52
3 Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration: Abortion and Homosexuality
Michael J. Sandel
71
4 Community: Reflections on Definition
Robert Booth Fowler
88
Human Nature, Social Theory, and the Moral Dimension
5 The Communitarian Individual
Jean Bethke Elshtain
99
6 Personhood and Moral Obligation
Philip Selznick
110
7 Human Nature and the Quest for Community
Alan Wolfe
126
Virtue in a Constitutional Democracy
8 Virtue, the Common Good, and Democracy
David Hollenbach, S.J.
143
Page vi
9 The Virtues of Democratic Self-Constraint
Amy Gutmann
154
10 Institutions as the Infrastructure of Democracy
William M. Sullivan
170
The Institutional Requirements of Constitutional Democracy
11 Liberal Politics and the Public Sphere
Charles Taylor
183
12 Free Speech and Free Press: A Communitarian Perspective
Jeffrey Abramson And Elizabeth Bussiere
218
Citizenship in America: Two Views
13 American Conceptions of Citizenship and National Service
Rogers M. Smith
233
14 Immigration and Political Community in the United States
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