The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
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DOI：
10.2307/1410419
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发表时间：
1993-03
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
A. Crawford;Amitai Etzioni
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作者：
A. Crawford;Amitai Etzioni
《流行圈》是阿米泰·埃齐奥尼 (Amitai Etzioni) 关于社群主义政治的最新宣言，在美国首次出版两年多后，该宣言终于在英国出版。2 在过去的一年里，英国人对社群主义的兴趣显着增长。社群主义一开始是对自由主义及其在新自由主义政治理性和自由主义法律哲学中的过度行为的哲学批判。3因此，社群主义指出了许多突出的哲学矛盾和模糊性，与一些欧洲批判理论非常相似。4作为对新右翼政治的明确拒绝，埃齐奥尼和更广泛的社群主义者在工党内受到了好评，因为 它试图在托尼·布莱尔的领导下重新定义自己。5“新工党”抓住了共同体精神，提供了一种介于未驯服的“市场”和不受欢迎的“社会主义社会团结”理想之间的东西。在本书中，埃齐奥尼试图超越批评，提出对社群主义政治的积极愿景。因此，这是一部大胆但尚未完成的作品。然而，它却陷入了一系列经验、哲学和政治的错误之中。这本书的英国版附有一篇非常简短的四页序言，其中列出了来自各个政治领域的许多知名人士，他们声称受到了这本书的启发。这应该立即提醒谨慎或愤世嫉俗的读者，一个议程如何同时吸引如此不同的利益。本书分为三大类
emic circles as Amitai Etzioni's latest manifesto on communitarian politics,' which has finally been published in Britain, more than two years after its initial publication in the United States of America.2 The interest in communitarianism in Britain has grown significantly over the past year. Communitarianism began as a philosophical critique of liberalism and its excesses in neo-liberal political rationality and libertarian legal philosophy.3 As such, communitarianism identified a number of salient philosophical contradictions and ambiguities, with close parallels to some European critical theory.4 As an explicit rejection of New Right politics, Etzioni, and communitarians more generally, have met with a favourable reception within the Labour Party, as it seeks to redefine itself under the leadership of Tony Blair.5 'New Labour' has seized upon The Spirit of Community as offering something which lies between the untamed 'market' and the outof-favour ideals of'socialist social solidarity'. In this book, Etzioni attempts to go beyond critique and to set out a positive vision of communitarian politics. Consequently, it is a bold, although unfinished, piece of work. It is, however, one which is trapped within a number of empirical, philosophical and political solecisms. The book comes with a very short, four-page preface to the British edition, which identifies a host of prominent people, from across the political spectrum, who claim to have been inspired by it. This should immediately alert the wary or cynical reader as to how an agenda can appeal simultaneously to such diverse interests. The book is divided into three broad