Communitarianism and Individualism

Name: Communitarianism and Individualism
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ISBN: 9780198780281

ISBN-10: 0198780281

ISBN-13: 9780198780281

Edition: 1992

Authors: Shlomo Avineri, Avner de-Shalit

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In the last decade much contemporary political and moral thought has been devoted to the debate between communitarianism and individualism. While individualists advocate the notions of rights, neutrality, and impartiality, and see society as a voluntary association for mutual advantage, communitarians argue that individuals are never detached from their society, culture, and history and that if they are to be properly understood they must first be examined in these contexts. Moreover communitarians claim that individualism makes it impossible to achieve a genuine community which can offer its members a just distribution of goods and morally meaningful life. The essays collected in this…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English