Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community

Author/Contributor(s):	Selznick, Philip
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	09/09/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.