Communitarian Reader

Amitai Etzioni is the founder of the communitarian movement and university professor at George Washington University. He is the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, a communitarian quarterly and the author of numerous books on political and social theory, including The New Golden Rule and My Brother's Keeper. Andrew Volmert is completing his PhD at Yale University. Elanit Rothschild is mangaging editor of The Responsive Community.

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials accomplishes just what its name implies. It offers a sophisticated sampling of provacative essays from a variety of communitarian perspectives. Rather than setting forth a standard communitarian 'truth,' it gathers together a series of fascinating and sometimes divergent views, bound together by an appreciation of the value of community and social responsibility.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Responsive Community Platform: Rights and ResponsibilitiesPart 3 I Theory and Social PhilosophyChapter 4 No Community, No DemocracyChapter 5 Combining Value Pluralism and Moral Universalism: Isaiah Berlin and BeyondChapter 6 Legislating Morality in Liberal DemocraciesChapter 7 On a Communitarian FaithChapter 8 Are Particularistic Obligations Justified? A Communitarian ExaminationPart 9 II The Communitarian SocietyChapter 10 Enforcing Norms: When the Law Gets in the WayChapter 11 Social Mores Are Not EnoughChapter 12 Confessions of an Alleged Libertarian (and the Virtues of "Soft" Communitarianism)Chapter 13 The Contours of RemoralizationChapter 14 The Duty to Rescue: A Liberal Communitarian ApproachChapter 15 Does Socioeconomic Inequality Undermine Community? Implications for Communitarian TheoryChapter 16 Americans as Communitarians: An Empirical StudyPart 17 III CommunityChapter 18 Developing Civil Society: Can the Workplace Replace Bowling?Chapter 19 Self-Sacrifice, Self-Fulfillment, and Mutuality: The Evolution of MarriageChapter 20 Peer MarriageChapter 21 Community and the Corner Store: Retrieving Human-Scale CommerceChapter 22 Boston's Ten Point Coalition: A Faith-Based Approach to Fighting Crime in the Inner CityChapter 23 Can Design Make Community?Part 24 IV Communitarian PoliciesChapter 25 Rights and Responsibilities, 2001Chapter 26 Confusing Freedom with License—Licenses Terrorism, Not FreedomChapter 27 We Can Strike a Balance on Civil LibertiesChapter 28 Liberal Sectarianism? Social Capital, Religious Communities, and Public FundsChapter 29 The Benefits of Surveillance?Chapter 30 Military Secrets and First Amendment ValuesChapter 31 Diversity Within Unity: A New Approach to Immigrants and MinoritiesPart 32 V DialoguesChapter 33 Virtue and the State: A Dialogue between a Communitarian and a Social ConservativeChapter 34 Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Good: A Dialogue on Communitarianism and Classical Liberalism