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. |
Contents
Introduction A New Moral Social Public | 1 |
Part I | 21 |
The Communitarian Family | 54 |
The Communitarian School | 89 |
Back to We | 116 |
Rebuilding Community Institutions | 134 |
Too Many Rights Too Few Responsibilities | 161 |
Nonlegal Remedies | 192 |
Part III | 207 |
What Is to Be Done? | 226 |
In Conclusion | 247 |
Notes | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 313 |
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