Author: Cladis, Mark S.
Title: A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism : Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, viii,339 pp, Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Durkheim's Communitarian Defense of Liberalism; Tradition & Autonomy: The Path to Moral Individualism; Liberalism as a Common Faith; Durkheim, Goodman, Rorty, & Mild-Mannered Pragmatism; The Individual in Society: A Sacred Marriage? Provinces of Ethics: Moral Pluralism & a Plurality of Morals; Education, Virtue & Democracy; Wittgenstein & the Activity of a Durkheimian Social Critic; Durkheim Among a Company of Critics: Rawls, Walzer, MacIntyre, & Rorty; Note on the Life of Durkheim: The Moral Imagination of the Social Scientist ["'Community,' 'tradition,' 'the individual', stand out prominently in today's intellectual landscape. In social and political theory and in religious studies they figure in the ongoing debates between liberals (champions of the individual) and communitarians (champions of the common good). With these debates and their potential conflict in mind, the author has constructed a timely reading of Emile Durkheim that captures the benefits associated with both liberalism and communitarianism. The book explores fundamental issues concerning freedom, rights, authority, public moral education, the relation between the public and the private, and the role of social criticism in democracies. Isolating the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories, the author demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Political Philosophy, Emile Durkheim, French Sociology, Liberalism, Communitarianism, Social Ethics, France, History, Liberal