The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community
Current price:
$36.95
Publication Date: September 9th, 1994
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN:
9780520089341
Pages:
567
Description
Philip Selznick's study of moral and social theory establishes the intellectual foundations of an important new movement in American thought: communitarianism. Emerging in part as a response to the excesses of American individualism - particularly rampant during the 1980s - communitarianism seeks to restore the balance between individual rights and social responsibilities. The Moral Commonwealth attempts to explain and justify this communitarian turn and give it a liberal interpretation.