Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847697037 ISBN 13: 9780847697038

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

The Communitarian Movement asserts that America and other Western societies overemphasize individual rights and underemphasize collective responsibilities. In the debate between the importance of individual and community rights The New Golden Rule by Amitai Etzioni, one of the movement's founders, has emerged at the theoretical cutting edge of Commitarianism's challenge.

This anthology of original essays by prominent political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists systematically advances our understanding of the movement's agenda. Using The New Golden Rule as the guidepost for organizing "conversations," the essays are structured around key questions that spring from Communitarian tenets. Although Amitai Etzioni's book provides the collection's framework, contributors have criticized, modified, or augmented his positions as they saw fit.

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About the Author

Amitai Etzioni is the founder and director of the Communitarian Network and University Professor at The George Washington University. He has served as a senior advisor to the White House and President of the American Sociological Association. He has taught sociology at Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of 22 books, including The New Golden Rule, Political Unification Revisited and My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message. A recent study listed him as one of the leading hundred public intellectuals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847697037
• ISBN 13: 9780847697038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lehman Edward W.