Spirit Of CommunityAmerica needs to move from me to we. In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward - together. The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening of our allegiance to the shared values and institutions that sustain us - from our marriages and families to our schools and our neighborhoods, and extending to our nation itself. In proposing a new balance between our rights as individuals and our social responsibilities, this controversial, groundbreaking book articulates the emerging social attitudes of the nineties. |
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THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
User Review - KirkusA primer on how to move from the ``me generation'' (castigated by Etzioni in An Immodest Agenda, 1982) to the ``we generation.'' The text doubles as a manifesto for the Communitarian movement, which ... Read full review
The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda
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Contents
Introduction A New Moral Social Public | vi |
Part I | xxvi |
The Communitarian Family 54 | lix |
The Communitarian School 89 | xciv |
Back to We 116 | 16 |
Rebuilding Community Institutions 134 | 34 |
Too Many Rights Too Few Responsibilities | 59 |
Part III | 7 |
What Is to Be Done? 226 | 26 |
In Conclusion 247 | 5 |
Notes 269 | 29 |
Acknowledgments | 313 |
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| Title | Spirit Of Community A Touchstone Book |
| Author | Amitai Etzioni |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0671885243, 9780671885243 |
| Length | 323 pages |
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