The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials (Rights & Responsibilities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074254219X ISBN 13: 9780742542198

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers reflecting on issues ranging from moral obligations to civil liberties after 9/11. The result is a book both practical and theoretical, and an essential guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement.

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About the Authors

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies Program. He was previously the Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. He served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. Galston is the author of five books and nearly one hundred articles in moral and political theory, American politics, and public policy. He has a regular column in the Wall Street Journal.

Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer of The Atlantic. His previous books include Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Rauch resides in Washington, DC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074254219X
• ISBN 13: 9780742542198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Etzioni Amitai