Looking Backward (eBook)

A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought

Derek L. Phillips (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6349-5 (ISBN)

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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 prominent in the past, and argue that reclaiming the role community formerly played is necessary to counter the negative effects of individualism and liberal thinking. Considering the relevance of community for our moral and political life today, Derek Phillips offers the first thorough critique of the historical, often nostalgic, claims that underlie dominant versions of communitarian philosophy.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • After Virtue • Apathy • aristocracy • Baptists • Benefit of clergy • Betterment • Christopher Lasch • Citizenship • city-state • classical Athens • classical republicanism • Communitarianism • Consummation • Contemporary Society • Crime • cultural pluralism • demagogue • despotism • dichotomy • Dictatorship • Disenchantment • distrust • Division of Labour • Economics • Education • Elite • Émile Durkheim • Estates of the realm • Exclusion • Extended family • Fugitive Slave Clause • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft • George Fitzhugh • grandparent • Greek Democracy • High Middle Ages • honour • hostility • Household • ideal type • Ideology • Individual and group rights • Individualism • Intellectual • Jews • just society • kinship • Leveling (philosophy) • Liberalism • local government • Mennonite • Middle Ages • Modernity • Morality • Nobility • Obedience (human behavior) • Obligation • Oppression • Ownership • Patriarchy • peasant • Personal life • Philosopher • Politics • Prostitution • Public sphere • Puritans • Racism • Religion • Republicanism • residence • Richard Henry Lee • right to property • Robert Nozick • Second-Class Citizen • Secularism • Self-ownership • Self-Sufficiency • Slavery • Social History • Social Theory • Society • Society of the United States • Sociology • Solidarity • Strong Democracy • Subsistence crisis • Tax • The Other Hand • Thomas Kuhn • Town meeting • Trial by ordeal • Tyrant • unfree labour • Veil of Ignorance • Villein (feudal) • Voting • war effort • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6349-X / 140086349X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6349-5 / 9781400863495