Looking Backward : : A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought / / Derek L. Phillips.
When social reformers blame the current ills of Western culture on the loss of community, they often evoke an ideal past in which societies were characterized by shared values, respect for tradition, commitment to the common good, and similar attributes. Communitarians assert that community was prom...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Uncovering the Communitarian Ideal
- Chapter 2. Once Upon a Time in America
- Chapter 3. The Communitarian Ideal and the American Reality
- Chapter 4. Life in the Middle Ages: An Overview
- Chapter 5 The Communitarian Ideal and the Medieval Reality
- Chapter 6. Community and the Good Life in Classical Athens
- Chapter 7. Learning from History
- Chapter 8. A Liberal Response to Communitarian Thought
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index