A Communitarian Defense Of Liberalism
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Author | : Mark S. Cladis |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0804723656 |
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 | : Mark S. Cladis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 9780804780810 |
'Community, ' 'tradition, ' 'the individual', stand out prominently in today's intellectual landscape. In social and political theory and in religious studies they figure in the ongoing debates between liberals (champions of the individual) and communitarians (champions of the common good). With these debates and their potential conflict in mind, the author has constructed a timely reading of Emile Durkheim that captures the benefits associated with both liberalism and communitarianism. The book explores fundamental issues concerning freedom, rights, authority, public moral education, the relation between the public and the private, and the role of social criticism in democracies. Isolating the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories, the author demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.
Author | : Daniel A. Bell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Will Kymlicka |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780198278719 |
Examines the nature and value of community and culture from a liberal viewpoint, and links the theories under discussion to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.
Author | : Markate Daly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Intended as a supplement in Social and Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Ideologies, and Democratic Theory, as well as a core volume for courses taught exclusively on communitarianism. That liberal democratic theory needs to be changed and our institutions need to be reformed is an argument strenuously resisted by many political philosophers. The most interesting development in political philosophy in the last 15 years has been the communitarian critique of liberalism. Communitarians insist that deficiencies in liberal theory are directly to blame for the declining fortunes of the American people. They propose to substitute the values of community for values of liberty and equality as the guiding ideal of our culture.
Author | : Patrick Keeney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 131710546X |
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.
Author | : Tim Wickenhauser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Conservatism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Catherine Galko Campbell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400779178 |
This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls’s writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. The book aims to show that objections to Rawls’s political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of political identity is defensible. The book shows that the debate between liberals and communitarians is relevant to the current debate regarding perfectionism and neutrality in politics, and clarifies the debate between Rawls and communitarians in a way that will promote fruitful discussion on the issue of political identity. It does this by providing a clearer account of a conception of personal identity according to which persons are socially constituted, including the intuitions and assumptions underlying the communitarians’ conception of persons as “socially constituted.” It examines the communitarian objections to liberal political theory and to the liberal conception of persons, the “unencumbered self.” The book differentiates between two types of objection to the liberal conception of persons: the metaphysical and normative. It explains Rawls's political conception of persons, and the metaphysical and normative commitments Rawls incurs—and does not incur—in virtue of that conception. It shows that both kind of objection to Rawls's political conception of the person fail. Finally, modifying Rawls’s political conception of the person, a Rawlsian conception of political identity is explained and defended.
Author | : Cornelius F. Delaney |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780847678648 |
In the tradition of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, Delaney brings to the forefront one of the latest challenges to liberalism: communitarianism. Distinguished political scientists and philosophers provide a dialogue that enriches the arguments of both schools.
Author | : Stephen Mulhall |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1996-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780631198192 |
This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.