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Publication
University of California Press (1994), Edition: Revised, 567 pages
Description
Philip Selznick's study of moral and social theory establishes the intellectual foundations of an important new movement in American thought: communitarianism. Emerging in part as a response to the excesses of American individualism - particularly rampant during the 1980s - communitarianism seeks to restore the balance between individual rights and social responsibilities. The Moral Commonwealth attempts to explain and justify this communitarian turn and give it a liberal interpretation.
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English
Physical description
567 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0520089340 / 9780520089341