Freedom of Association / / ed. by Amy Gutmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Daniel A.,; Fleischacker, Sam,; Greenawalt, Kent,; Gutmann, Amy,; Kateb, George,; Kymlicka, Will,; Marneffe, Peter de,; Rosenblum, Nancy L.,; Ryan, Alan,; Tamir, Yael,; Walzer, Michael,; White, Stuart,
• HerausgeberIn: Gutmann, Amy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The University Center for Human Values Series ; 49
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly all sorts. Social scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether decreasing proportions of Americans over the past several decades have been joining secondary associations, but no one disputes that freedom of association remains a fundamental personal and political value in the United States. "Nothing," Alexis de Tocqueville argued, "deserves more attention." Yet the value and limits of free association in the United States have not received the attention they deserve. Why is freedom of association valuable for the lives of individuals? What does it contribute to the life of a liberal democracy? This volume explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association by Amy Gutmann, the first part of this timely volume includes essays on individual rights of association by George Kateb, Michael Walzer, Kent Greenawalt, and Nancy Rosenblum, and the second part includes essays on civic values of association by Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, Daniel A. Bell, Sam Fleischacker, Alan Ryan, and Stuart White.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION -- CHAPTER ONE Freedom of Association: An Introductory Essay -- PART I: INDIVIDUAL VALUES OF ASSOCIATION -- CHAPTER TWO The Value of Association -- CHAPTER THREE On Involuntary Association -- CHAPTER FOUR Compelled Association: Public Standing, Self-Respect, and the Dynamic of Exclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE Freedom of Association and Religious Association -- CHAPTER SIX Rights, Reasons, and Freedom of Association -- PART II: CIVIC VALUES OF ASSOCIATION -- CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Associations and Democratic Citizenship -- CHAPTER EIGHT Revisiting the Civic Sphere -- CHAPTER NINE Civil Society versus Civic Virtue -- CHAPTER TEN Insignificant Communities -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The City as a Site for Free Association -- CHAPTER TWELVE Trade Unionism in a Liberal State -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX