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Article: Etzioni, Amitai, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild, eds. The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials.(Book Review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- January 1, 2005
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Etzioni, Amitai, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild, eds. The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield 272 pp., $27.95. ISBN 0-7425-4219-X Publication Date: October 2004
The Communitarian Reader is edited by Amitai Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild, three names of great ability in communitarian studies. Their core assumption is based on a social philosophy that requires shared formulations of the good. Communitarians see social institutions and policies as affected by tradition and, hence, by values passed from generation to generation. Communitarians emphasize the special moral obligations that people have to ...