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A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism : Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory / Mark S. Cladis.
De Gruyter Stanford University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
De Gruyter Stanford University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cladis, Mark S., Author.
- Series:
- Stanford Series in Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'Community, ' 'tradition, ' 'the individual', stand out prominently in today's intellectual landscape. In social and political theory and in religious studies they figure in the ongoing debates between liberals (champions of the individual) and communitarians (champions of the common good). With these debates and their potential conflict in mind, the author has constructed a timely reading of Emile Durkheim that captures the benefits associated with both liberalism and communitarianism. The book explores fundamental issues concerning freedom, rights, authority, public moral education, the relation between the public and the private, and the role of social criticism in democracies. Isolating the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories, the author demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- ONE Durkheim's Communitarian Defense of Liberalism
- TWO Tradition and Autonomy: The Path to Moral Individualism
- THREE Liberalism as a Common Faith
- FOUR Durkheim, Goodman, Rorty, and Mild-Mannered Pragmatism
- FIVE The Individual in Society: A Sacred Marriage?
- SIX Provinces of Ethics: Moral Pluralism and a Plurality of Morals
- SEVEN Education, Virtue, and Democracy
- EIGHT Wittgenstein and the Activity of a Durkheimian Social Critic
- NINE Durkheim Among a Company of Critics: Rawls, Walzer, Macintyre, and Rorty
- Note on the Life of Durkheim: The Moral Imagination of the Social Scientist
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-8081-1
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