The spirit of community : rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda / Amitai Etzioni.
1993
HN90.C6 E88 1993 (Mapit)
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Title
The spirit of community : rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda / Amitai Etzioni.
Author
Etzioni, Amitai.
Alternate Title
Communitarian agenda.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0517592770
9780517592779
9780517592779
Publication Details
New York : Crown Publishers, c1993.
Language
English
Description
viii, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HN90.C6 E88 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.1/4/0973
Summary
America needs to move from me to we. In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward - together. The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening of our allegiance to the shared values and institutions that sustain us - from our marriages and families to our schools and our neighborhoods, and extending to our nation itself. In proposing a new balance between our rights as individuals and our social responsibilities, this controversial, groundbreaking book articulates the emerging social attitudes of the nineties. We have many rights as individuals, Etzioni declares, but we have responsibilities to our communities, too. The right to be tried before a jury of our peers, for instance, is connected to our willingness to serve on one. We as a nation have in recent years forgotten such basic truths of our democratic social contract. And what we need now is a revival of the idea that small sacrifices by individuals can create large benefits for all of us. We must have the moral responsibility to respect our families and fight to preserve them, to value our children and their futures, and to be willing to espouse and teach commonly held moral values. Etzioni faces the tough issues that arise when the rights of individuals are weighed against those of the community, from free speech versus restrictions on hate speech to the right of police to conduct random checks of motorists' sobriety, from drug and HIV testing to mandatory national service. A movement that has already attracted the attention of policymakers as varied as Al Gore, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jack Kemp, and Henry Cisneros, Communitarianism provides a call to action and a perceptive analysis of American politics and society today. And The Spirit of Community is vital reading for any American who is engaged with the future of the country in the next decade.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also issued online.
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Table of Contents
Introduction A New Moral, Social, Public Order - Without Puritanism or Oppression
Pt. 1. Shoring Up Morality. 1. The Moral Voice. 2. The Communitarian Family. 3. The Communitarian School. 4. Back to We. 5. Rebuilding Community Institutions
Pt. II. Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities. 6. New Responsibilities: Public Safety and Public Health. 7. Hate Speech: Nonlegal Remedies
Pt. III. The Public Interest. 8. Communitarian Politics. 9. What Is to Be Done?
The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities.
Pt. 1. Shoring Up Morality. 1. The Moral Voice. 2. The Communitarian Family. 3. The Communitarian School. 4. Back to We. 5. Rebuilding Community Institutions
Pt. II. Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities. 6. New Responsibilities: Public Safety and Public Health. 7. Hate Speech: Nonlegal Remedies
Pt. III. The Public Interest. 8. Communitarian Politics. 9. What Is to Be Done?
The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities.