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In this new collection of essays, Paul van Seters brings together
an international group of scholars from diverse academic
backgrounds to reflect upon the remarkable rise of communitarianism
in contemporary studies of law and society. Taking account of the
intricate relationship between law and communitarianism, these
essays critically assess the communitarian perspective in order to
gain a more systematic insight into its distinctive constraints and
the special opportunities it provides. At its core, this work
contends that law necessarily presupposes community, but also
essentially extends it. Arguing that communitarianism must be
understood as an effort to reconstruct liberalism, and not just
debunk it, Communitarianism in Law and Society explores what good
is to come of this movement for legal theory and practice.
In this new collection of essays, Paul van Seters brings together
an international group of scholars from diverse academic
backgrounds to reflect upon the remarkable rise of communitarianism
in contemporary studies of law and society. Taking account of the
intricate relationship between law and communitarianism, these
essays critically assess the communitarian perspective in order to
gain a more systematic insight into its distinctive constraints and
the special opportunities it provides. At its core, this work
contends that law necessarily presupposes community, but also
essentially extends it. Arguing that communitarianism must be
understood as an effort to reconstruct liberalism, and not just
debunk it, Communitarianism in Law and Society explores what good
is to come of this movement for legal theory and practice.
Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of
social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and
blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains
in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social,
political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great
clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled
with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and
responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of
polity.
To make jurisprudence relevant, legal, political, and social
theory must be reintegrated. As a step in this direction, Nonet and
Selznick attempt to recast jurisprudential issues in a social
science perspective. They construct a valuable framework for
analyzing and assessing the worth of alternative modes of legal
ordering. The volume's most enduring contribution is the authors'
typology-repressive, autonomous, and responsive law. This typology
of law is original and especially useful because it incorporates
both political and jurisprudential aspects of law and speaks
directly to contemporary struggles over the proper place of law in
democratic governance.
In his new introduction, Robert A. Kagan recasts this classic
text for the contemporary world. He sees a world of responsive law
in which legal institutions-courts, regulatory agencies,
alternative dispute resolution bodies, police departments-are
periodically studied and redesigned to improve their ability to
fulfill public expectations. Schools, business corporations, and
governmental bureaucracies are more fully pervaded by legal values.
Law and Society in Transition describes ways in which law changes
and develops. It is an inspiring vision of a politically responsive
form of governance, of special interest to those in sociology, law,
philosophy, and politics.
The famous and influential study of politics in action at all
levels in the creation and expansion of the Tennessee Valley
Authority -- with all its land use, agricultural, political and
human effects. Landmark application of political and social theory
coupled with prodigious research and insightful analysis made this
a legendary work. Newly republished in print and digital formats in
the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books,
this acclaimed book is presented to a new generation of social
scientists and historians with a new Foreword by Berkeley law
professor Jonathan Simon. All formats include embedded page numbers
from prior editions for continuity of reference and citation. This
edition is reproduced in modern format with hyperaccurate
proofreading of text and notes, and properly formatted tables.
Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of
scholarly work, "A Humanist Science" insightfully brings to light
the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly
challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and argues
that human values belong to the world of fact and are the source of
the ideals that govern social and political institutions. By
demonstrating the close connection between the social sciences and
the humanities, Selznick reveals how the methods of the social
sciences highlight and enrich the study of such values as
well-being, prosperity, rationality, and self-government.
The book moves from the animating principles that make up the
humanist tradition to the values that are central to the social
sciences, analyzing the core teachings of these disciplines with
respect to the moral issues at stake. Throughout the work, Selznick
calls attention to the conditions that affect the emergence,
realization, and decline of human values, offering a valuable
resource for scholars and students of law, sociology, political
science, and philosophy.
"Philip Selznick has profoundly affected how all serious students
of organizations think about their subject. "Leadership in
Administration" is, perhaps, his masterpiece: a lucid, rigorous,
yet humane analysis of the essential task of leadership that
brilliantly reaffirms the organic, value-infused character of a
successful enterprise, whether private or public. The central
concepts of the book--'mission, ' 'distinctive competence'--have
become so much a part of our vocabulary that we sometimes forget
they had to be invented and that Selznick invented them. His
reminder that the true exercise of leadership transcends a concern
with mere efficiency is even more appropriate in today's era of
quasi-scientific thought about organizations than it was when,
presciently, he first set it forth in 1957."--James Q. Wilson,
Harvard University
"The reappearance of "Leadership in Administration" will be most
welcome to students of organizations because it provides the most
lucid and complete statement available of Selznick's special view
of organizations. This view has given rise to the institutionalist
school of organizational analysis, one of the liveliest and more
irrelevant alternatives to mainstream rationalist
formulations."--W. Richard Scott, Stanford University
""Leadership in Administration" has become a classic in the art of
executive leadership. In fact, it is stimulating more managerial
thought and organizational research today than ever
before."--Robert H. Miles, Harvard Business School
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1959.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1959.
Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social,
political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame.
Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in
accessible language the primary forms of law as a social,
political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great
clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled
with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and
responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity.
To make jurisprudence relevant, legal, political, and social theory
must be reintegrated. As a step in this direction, Nonet and
Selznick attempt to recast jurisprudential issues in a social
science perspective. They construct a valuable framework for
analyzing and assessing the worth of alternative modes of legal
ordering. The volume's most enduring contribution is the authors'
typology-repressive, autonomous, and responsive law. This typology
of law is original and especially useful because it incorporates
both political and jurisprudential aspects of law and speaks
directly to contemporary struggles over the proper place of law in
democratic governance. In his new introduction, Robert A. Kagan
recasts this classic text for the contemporary world. He sees a
world of responsive law in which legal institutions-courts,
regulatory agencies, alternative dispute resolution bodies, police
departments-are periodically studied and redesigned to improve
their ability to fulfill public expectations. Schools, business
corporations, and governmental bureaucracies are more fully
pervaded by legal values. Law and Society in Transition describes
ways in which law changes and develops. It is an inspiring vision
of a politically responsive form of governance, of special interest
to those in sociology, law, philosophy, and politics.
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. Selznick begins by
challenging the pervasive subjectivism and relativism of modern and
postmodern thought. He vigorously defends the place of objectivity
in moral discourse, particularly in establishing the common good -
in how we make and justify our moral choices, whether in educating
children, supporting the arts or protecting the community against
private indifference and greed. He then examines three closely
connected levels of moral experience - persons, institutions, and
communities. The book ends with wide-ranging discussion of the
foundations of community and, most importantly, of the promise of
justice and democracy. Selznick grounds his theory of community in
the experience of everyday
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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