Author: Beau Breslin
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: constitution, communitarian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-08-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801885388
ISBN-13: 9780801885389

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 Mich

Author: Amitai Etzioni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: reader, communitarian, essential
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1998-01-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0847688275
ISBN-13: 9780847688272

This comprehensive collection contains essays from the nation’s most respected thinkers, including Mary Ann Glendon, Senator Bill Bradley, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and many others.

Author: Martin Kusch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: epistemology, communitarian, programme, agreement, knowledge
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2004-12-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199251371
ISBN-13: 9780199251377

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: Amitai Etzioni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: responsibilities, lanham, rights, essentials, reader, communitarian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-10
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 0742542181
ISBN-13: 9780742542181

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: University of Virginia Pre
Keywords: communities, constitutionalism, democracy, institutions, virtues, communitarian, thinking, persons, new
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0813915694
ISBN-13: 9780813915692

Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy and the future of liberalism and liberal societies. These essays bring communitarian thinking to bear on such contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech and personal autonomy.

Author: Mark Cladis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: theory, stanford, series, philosophy, social, contemporary, defense, liberalism, emile, durkheim, communitarian
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1994-05-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804723656
ISBN-13: 9780804723657

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: JoAnn M. Foster
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: transnational, economy, business, corporate, culture, integrity, organization, preserving, cultural, communitarian
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $153.00
ISBN-10: 0815332505
ISBN-13: 9780815332503

Preserving Cultural Integrity in the Transnational Economy (Transnational Business and Corporate Culture, Problems and Opportunities)