Download or read book The Communitarian Reader written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Essential Communitarian Reader written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Communitarian Reader written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Communitarianism and Its Critics written by Daniel A. Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Communitarian Constitution written by Beau Breslin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in constitutional law and civil liberties, Breslin (Skidmore College) first sets out the 1861 case in which Lincoln suspended habeus corpus on the basis of national security, and the US Supreme Court determined that the president has no such constitutional authority. Then he uses it to explain the tension between communitarians who bel
Download or read book A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism written by Mark S. Cladis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Knowledge by Agreement written by Martin Kusch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Liberals and Communitarians written by Stephen Mulhall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.
Download or read book Spirit Of Community written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how Americans need to develop or restore a sense of community in order to reconstruct society.
Download or read book Rights and the Common Good written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore written by Beng-Huat Chua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has adopted over the past three decades. It charts the government's move away from Western concepts towards the evolution of 'Asian democracy'. The author analyses this anti-liberal democracy and the government's motives for repackaging cultural heritage into a national ideology of Asian communitarianism. This book avoids the polarization that has tended to characterise texts on Asian governments. It neither concentrates on a history of authoritarian repression nor unequivocally praises the regime but critically examines its political success. As such it provides a new and balanced account to the student of Singapore politics.
Download or read book Communitarian Politics in Asia written by Beng Huat Chua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies and political practices and the concept of the 'social' in terms of responsibilities and collective welfare is preserved. Communitarian Politics in Asia examines instances in southeast and east Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life and assesses the relative merits of a set of practices in their respective local political context. The book not only augments existing international debate on liberalism and communitarianism but also provides empirical examples of communitarian political practices that will substantiate and/or refute conceptual points, such as redistributive justice and costs to individuals, in this ongoing debate.
Download or read book Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States written by Wendy E. Chmielewski and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In deze interdisciplinair samengestelde bundel essays wordt aandacht geschonken aan de rol en de ervaringen van vrouwen in spirituele, ideële en seculiere gemeenschappen in de Verenigde Staten van de 18e eeuw tot laat in de 20e eeuw. Deze bundel bevat, na een introductie door Marlyn Klee-Hartzell de volgende bijdragen: Sojourner Truth : utopian vision and search for community, 1797-1883 / door Wendy E. Chmielewski: Women's experiences in the American Owenite communities / door Carol A. Kolmerten: Heaven on earth : the Woman's Commonwealth, 1867-1983 / door Wendy E. Chmielewski: Creative women of Brook Farm / door Lucy M. Freibert: Shaker Fancy Goods : women's work and presentation of self in the community context in the Victorian era / door Beverly Gordon: 'In the bonds of true love and friendship' : some meanings of 'Gospel affection' and 'Gospel Union' in Shaker Sisters' letters and poems / door Rosemary D. Gooden: Sexual equality and economic authority : the Shaker experience, 1784-1900 / door Karen K. en Pamela J. Nickless: 'Thou of the weaker sex' : a reassessment of gender equality among the Shakers / door Priscilla J. Brewer: Organizing for service : challenges to community life and work decisions in Catholic sisterhoods / door Mary J. Oates: 'Diamond cut diamond' : the Mormon wife vs. the true woman, 1840-1890 / door Kathy Marquis: Family love, true womanliness, motherhood, and the socialization of girls in the Oneida community, 1848-1880 / door Marlyn Klee-Hartzell: Pronatalism, midwifery, and synergistic marriage : spiritual enlightenment and sexual ideology on the farm (Tennessee) / door Louis J. Kern: Female education in the Lubavitcher community : the Beth Rivkah and Machon Chana schools / door Bonnie Morris: Colony girl : a Hutterite childhood / door Ruth Baer Lambach: the power of feminism at Twin Oaks community / door Zena Goldenberg.
Download or read book An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theolog written by William T. Cavanaugh and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology gathers some of the most significant and influential writings in political theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given that the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North America on such major subjects as church and state, gender and race, and Christendom and postcolonialism. Carefully selected, thematically arranged, and expertly introduced, these forty-nine essential readings constitute an ideal primary-source introduction to contemporary political theology a profoundly relevant resource for globally engaged citizens, students, and scholars. CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas Adams Rafael Avila Karl Barth Richard Bauckham Dietrich Bonhoeffer Walter Brueggemann Ernesto Cardenal J. Kameron Carter James H. Cone Dorothy Day Musa W. Dube Jean Bethke Elshtain Eric Gregory Gustavo Gutirrez Stanley Hauerwas George Hunsinger Ada Mara Isasi-Diaz Emmanuel M. Katongole Rafiq Khoury Kosuke Koyama Brian McDonald Johann Baptist Metzv Virgil Michel Nstor O. Miguez John Milbank John Courtney Murray Ched Myers H. Richard Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Arvind P. Nirmal Oliver O Donovan Catherine Pickstock Kwok Pui-lan A. Maria Arul Raja Walter Rauschenbusch Joerg Rieger Christopher Rowland Rosemary Radford Ruether Alexander Schmemann Carl Schmitt Peter Manley Scott Jon Sobrino Dorothee Solle R. S. Sugirtharajah Elsa Tamez Mark Lewis Taylor Emilie M. Townes Desmond Tutu Bernd Wannenwetsch Graham Ward George Weigel Delores S. Williams Rowan Williams Walter Wink John Howard Yoder Kim Yong-Bock
Download or read book Schools and Community written by James Arthur and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Spirit of Community written by Amitai Etzioni and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communitarianism is a movement, founded by Amitai Etzioni in 1991, whose adherents are united in the belief that the West must balance their passion for individualism with a new sense of social responsibility.
Download or read book The Communitarian Constitution written by Beau Breslin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
