The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials (Rights & Responsibilities) [Paperback] Volmert, Andrew; Rothschild, Elanit; Browning, Don; Coughlin, Richard; Ehrenhalt, Alan; Epstein, Richard A.; Etzioni, Amitai; Fukuyama, Francis; Galston Senior Fellow, William A.; Heyman, Steven J.; Joas, Hans; Karp, David; Kmiec, Douglas W.; Langdon, Philip; Macedo, Stephen; Polankow-Suransky, Sasha; Rauch, Jonathan; Schwartz, Pepper Dr.; Selznick, Philip; Spragens Jr., Thomas A.; Taylor, Charles; Tribe, Laurence H.; Volokh, Eugen; Wolfe, Alan and Zelnick, C Robert

Etzioni, Amitai [Editor]

ISBN 10: 074254219X / ISBN 13: 9780742542198

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004

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• Title: The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials (Rights & Responsibilities) [Paperback] Volmert, Andrew; Rothschild, Elanit; Browning, Don; Coughlin, Richard; Ehrenhalt, Alan; Epstein, Richard A.; Etzioni, Amitai; Fukuyama, Francis; Galston Senior Fellow, William A.; Heyman, Steven J.; Joas, Hans; Karp, David; Kmiec, Douglas W.; Langdon, Philip; Macedo, Stephen; Polankow-Suransky, Sasha; Rauch, Jonathan; Schwartz, Pepper Dr.; Selznick, Philip; Spragens Jr., Thomas A.; Taylor, Charles; Tribe, ...
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074254219X
• ISBN 13: 9780742542198
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 13 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director in the State Department's policy planning staff. He is the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.

Jonathan Rauch is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, a senior writer and columnist for National Journal, and a writer in residence at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books on public policy, culture, and economics, including Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Economist, Harper's, Fortune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate, among other publications. He is vice president of the Independent Gay Forum and lives near Washington, D.C.

Professor Charles Taylor received the U.K.'s Bragg Medal and Prize of Institutional Physics, and the UK's Michael Faraday Award for contributions to the public understanding of science. He has presented lectures on BBC television and has written many science books for children.