The communitarian movement aims to balance the individual
liberties prized by modernity with the health of the community in
which those liberties are exercised. The movement arose in 1980s
America-a society asserting, on the left, personal self-realization
and, on the right, unrestrained capitalism and distrust of
government, both sides assailing social institutions.
In "The Communitarian Persuasion" esteemed thinker Philip
Selznick shows how the communitarian response to such pressures is
not opposition but integration. "Communities have this remarkable
feature: they build upon and are nourished by other unities, which
are persons, groups, practices, and institutions. What we prize in
community is not unity of any sort at any price, but unity that
preserves the integrity of the parts."
Selznick situates communitarianism as a public philosophy and
relates the communitarian project to key social and political
questions raised by the recent transformations of modern life. He
also reflects on the appropriate demands of the common good and on
religious faith's contributions to community. Readers new to
communitarian ideas and readers long acquainted with them will find
"The Communitarian Persuasion" well worth their attention.
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