Autonomy and Order

Edward W. Lehman is professor of sociology at New York University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Prologue: From Compliance to Community in the Works of Amitai EtzioniChapter 3 Autonomy,Functionalism, the Common Good: Some Liberal Doubts about The New Golden RuleChapter 4 Communitarianism, Human Nature, and the Spirit of the Times,Chapter 5 Procedure and Conviction: On Moral DialoguesChapter 6 The Integrity of Unrestricted Desire: Community, Values, and the Problem of Personhood,Chapter 7 What Can the Study of Communities Teach Us About Community?Chapter 8 Defining Community: A Psychological PerspectiveChapter 9 Community and Its Discontents: Politics and Etzioni's New Golden RuleChapter 10 Integrating Diversity: Boundaries, Bonds, and the Greater Community in The New Golden RuleChapter 11 Communitarianism: The Issue of RelativismChapter 12 Moral Dialogues Across Cultures: An Empirical PerspectiveChapter 13 The Cycles of Moral DialogueChapter 14 Accounting for OrderChapter 15 Toward an International Human Rights (and Responsibilities) Regime: Some ObstaclesChapter 16 Epilogue

Can anything fresh that is also worthwhile be said about communitarianism anymore? The essays in this volume show not only that it is possible to do so, but how much of real value can still be learned from continuing to explore the issues raised (and debated) by communitarians. This is the best introduction to the current state of communitarian thinking of which I am aware, and it provides abundant evidence of the continuing intellectual vitality of the movement....