The Essential Communitarian Reader

, by Bayer, Ronald; Barber, Benjamin R.; Bell, Daniel A.; Bellah, Robert N.; Bradley, Senator Bill; Coats, Senator Dan; Conner, Roger L.; Dahrendorf, Ralf; DiIulio, John J., Jr.; Doherty, William J.; Elshtain, Jean Bethke; Etzioni, Amitai; Fishkin, James S.; G

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ISBN: 9780847688272 | 0847688275
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/17/1998

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This comprehensive collection contains essays from the nation's most respected thinkers, including Mary Ann Glendon, Senator Bill Bradley, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and many others.

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Introduction
The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities
Foundations of Communitarian Liberalism	p. 3
Community Properly Understood: A Defense of "Democratic Communitarianism"	p. 15
The Limits of Libertarianism	p. 21
A Moral Reawakening Without Puritanism	p. 41
The Dangers of Soft Despotism	p. 47
Beyond Teledemocracy: "America on the Line"	p. 55
Social Justice: A Communitarian Perspective	p. 61
A Precarious Balance: Economic Opportunity, Civil Society, and Political Liberty	p. 73
Rights and Responsibilities	p. 97
"Absolute" Rights: Property and Privacy	p. 107
Permissible Paternalism: In Defense of the Nanny State	p. 115
Finding a Place for Community in the First Amendment	p. 125
AIDS Prevention vs. Cultural Sensitivity	p. 131
A Gangsta's Rights	p. 139
A Liberal-Democratic Case for the Two-Parent Family	p. 145
How Therapists Threaten Marriages	p. 157
Residential Community Associations: Community or Disunity?	p. 167
When Redistribution and Economic Growth Fail	p. 177
What Makes a Good Urban Park?	p. 183
The Loss of Public Space	p. 187
Rebuilding Urban Communities	p. 199
The Libertarian Conundrum: Why the Market Does Not Safeguard Civil Rights	p. 207
Drug Abuse Control Policy: Libertarian, Authoritarian, Liberal, and Communitarian Perspectives	p. 217
Inner-City Crime: What the Federal Government Should Do	p. 227
A Mandate For Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service	p. 237
Social Science Finds: "Marriage Matters"	p. 247
Democracy and the Politics of Difference	p. 259
Pluralism vs. Particularism in American Education	p. 269
Immigration and Political Community in the United States	p. 283
Who Killed Modern Manners?	p. 295
Index	p. 303
About the Contributors	p. 321
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