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9780312089689

Rights and the Common Good The Communitarian Perspective

by Amitai Etzioni
  • ISBN13:

    9780312089689

  • ISBN10:

    0312089686

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-11-15
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface: We, the Communitarians
Introduction
The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities
The Communitarian Paradigm
Rights in Twentieth Century Constitutions
Rights and Responsibilities
The Quest for Self
Communitarianism or Populism?
Japan: The Price of Safe Streets
Policy Applications
Preventing HIV: Rights, Duties, and Partner Notification
Checkpoint at Inkster: Reasonable or Unreasonable?
Free Speech, Equal Rights, and Water Buffaloes: University Regulation of Discriminatory Verbal Harassment
Pornography: Free Speech versus Civil Rights?
The Misunderstandings of the "Property Rights" Movement
Moral Infrastructure
In Defense of the Nanny State
The New Paternalism: Earned Welfare
A Liberal-Democratic Case for the Two-Parent Family
Moral Guidance for Today's Youth, In School and Out
Schools to Parents: Keep Out
Building a Responsive Community
Pluralism within Unity: A Communitarian Version of Multiculturalism
Mosaic of Hope: Ethnic Identities Clash with Student Idealism at a College
A Mandate for Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service
Crossing the Tracks: A Lesson in Public Service
Between the State and Market: Voluntarism and the Difference It Makes
Shoring Up Communities
The Loss of Public Space
Community Policing
National Public Radio
This Town Will Die without Our School
Where Necessity Ends for Hospital Care
Toward a Responsive Society
Participation and the Problem of Civic Understanding
On Restoring the Moral Voice
Communitarian vs. Individualistic Capitalism
Beyond Left and Right: A New Political Paradigm
About the Authors
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