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Communitarianism Summary
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Communitarianism In the 1980s communitarians displaced Marxists as the most prominent critics of liberal political theory. Communitarians share a belief that liberalism is excessively individualistic or atomistic, ignoring people's dependence on...
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Communitarianism : Topics in Politics
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Communitarianism is a relatively recent development in political theory, largely of American origin. It was formulated mainly from a right-wing perspective by those dissatisfied with liberal democracy. In Europe, and particularly the United Kingdom, it...
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Communitarianism
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Political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of community in the functioning of political life, in the analysis and evaluation of political institutions, and in understanding human identity and well-being. It was developed in the...
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Communitarianism, as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late 20th century, opposing individualism while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not necessarily hostile to social liberalism or even social democracy,...
 


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The Boston Globe
Communitarian Imperative
01/31/1990: 655 words, approx. 2 pages
Here's a dilemma: Mothers in your community have mobilized the police to set up Scandinavian-style "traffic sobriety checkpoints," where cops briefly detain drivers to check if they've been drinking. The American Civil Liberties Union sues the police, charging that the surprise checks violate the...
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Quadrant
The Communitarian Journey.
01/01/1999: 3,595 words, approx. 12 pages
Communitarians accept elements of conservative and progressive points of view. Part of this position means tolerating ambiguity and accepting that the best system of government cannot be embodied by a single idea, and partly to use lessons from the past to reconstruct a future....
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Investor's Business Daily
Ace In The Toll
8/21/2007: 544 words, approx. 2 pages
Infrastructure: Washington's response to the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis -- a proposal to hike the fuel tax -- was typical. Why not consider privatization instead?But that, too, will get a knee-jerk reaction from politicians and bureaucrats so encrusted with obsolete notions that they can't...
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The New York Observer
Letters to a Young Curator
10/2/2007: 610 words, approx. 2 pages
Any museum that devotes an exhibition to the neo-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is guaranteed boffo box office receipts. Few artists have achieved as much posthumous celebrity or, rather, had it thrust upon them. Myth has all but engulfed the man. Van Gogh’s sister-in-law,...
 


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