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Communitarianism and Its Critics
Author | : Daniel A. Bell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105003438632 |
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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.
Liberalism and Its Critics
Author | : Michael J. Sandel |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1984-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780814778418 |
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Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.
Communitarianism
Author | : Henry Benedict Tam |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780814782361 |
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Although communitarianism has a long history, it has only recently emerged to pose a major challenge to the traditional left-right divide in politics and the competing principles of individualism and collectivism. Communitarianism is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to communitarianism's ideas and their implications for politics and citizenship. Drawing on a wide range of international examples and engaging with communitarianism's critics, Tam demonstrates clearly its relevance to the United States and the world.
Beyond Foundationalism
Author | : Stanley James Grenz,John R. Franke |
Publsiher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0664257690 |
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Grenz and Franke provide a methodological approach for doing theology in the postmodern world. They call for a theological method that moves beyond the Enlightenment way of ordering and understanding information (foundationalism). They propose a theological method that takes seriously the Spirit, tradition and contemporary culture, while stressing trinitarian structure, community and eschatology.
Constructing Community
Author | : J. Donald Moon |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781400821112 |
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In developing a new theory of political and moral community, J. Donald Moon takes questions of cultural pluralism and difference more seriously than do many other liberal thinkers of our era: Moon is willing to confront the problem of how community can be created among those who have very different views about the proper ends of human life. Experiencing such profound disagreement, can we live together in a society under norms we all accept? In recent years, traditional ways of looking at this query have come under attack by post-modernists, feminists, and thinkers concerned with pluralism. Respectfully engaging their critiques, Moon proposes a reformulated liberalism that is intended to overcome the problems they have identified.
Rights and the Common Good
Author | : Amitai Etzioni |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0312102720 |
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This is a provocative new book that examines the relationship between individual rights and social responsibilities. The book's thirty essays explore the foundations of communitarian thought as well as the implications of communitarian ideas for contemporary public and social policy. The essays also discuss how communities can be strengthened and consider how society can be more responsive to the needs of individuals and communities.
Communitarianism and Its Critic
Author | : Daniel Bell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Communities |
ISBN | : OCLC:53501301 |
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Liberalism Communitarianism and Education
Author | : Professor Patrick Keeney |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781409485360 |
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Communitarian thinkers have identified important deficiencies in liberal thought, in particular the limits of the account of justice given in liberal theories. This book makes transparent for the reader the implications that the liberal account of justice has for our ways of thinking about education. Citing the work of John Rawls as the principal expression of contemporary liberal thought, Keeney argues that there are certain intractable tensions between the view of the individual given in rights-based theories of justice and a certain valuable conception of education, which in the West has traditionally been termed a "liberal" or "general" education and concludes that ideals of a liberal education are only available to a political ethic which is capable of articulating a public conception of virtue and the good.