Universalism vs. Communitarianism
Contemporary Debates in Ethics
Edited by David Rasmussen
Universalism vs. Communitarianism focuses on the question, raised by recent work in normative philosophy, of whether ethical norms are best derived and justified on the basis of universal or communitarian standards. It is unique in representing both Continental and American points of view and both the older and a younger generation of scholars. The essays introduce the key issues involved in universalism vs. communitarianism and take up ethics in historical perspective, practical reason and ethical responsibility, justification, application and history, and communitarian alternatives. Based on a special issue of the Journal Philosophy and Social Criticism, the book includes two additional essays by Chantal Mouffe and by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus.
David Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and editor of Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Contents: introduction, David, Rasmussen. Universalisms: Procedural, Contextualist, and Prudential, Alessandro Ferrara. Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Toward a Critical Theory of Social Justice, Gerald Doppelt. The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics, Kenneth Baynes. Discourse Ethics and Civil Society, Jean Cohen. Equality, Political Order and Ethics: Hobbes and the Systematics of Democratic Rationality, Rolf Zimmermann. Atomism and Ethical Life: On Hegel's Critique of the French Revolution, Axel Honneth. The Gadamer-Habermas Debate Revisited: The Question of Ethics, Michael Kelly. What Is and What Is Not Practical Reason? Agnes Heller. Adorno, Heidegger, and Postmodernity, Hauke Brunkhorst. Impartial Application of Moral and Legal Norms: A Contribution to Discourse Ethics, Klaus Günther. An Ethics, Politics, and History, Jürgen Habermas in an interview conducted by Jean-Marc Ferry. Rawls: Political Philosophy without Politics, Chantal Mouffe. What Is Morality: A Phenomenological Account of the Development of Ethical Expertise, Hubert L Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus. Universalism and Communitarianism: A Bibliography, Michael Zilles.August 1990
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Wikipedia has a new entry called Singaporean Communitarianism
Interestingly, baby-faced Dr. Henry Tam, a chinese from Singapore, Harvard educated and a huge fan of Etzioni, has helped New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, bring Communitarianism into the UK. Not a lot of people know that!
ReplyDeleteHe comes across as naive and well-meaning in his blog but he is a powerful and dangerous man IMHO. Every bit as influencial as Julia Middleton (Common Purpose) yet most people have never heard of him. He is an accademic, has never run a business or done a day's work in the REAL world in his life, yet he has interfered big-style in the lives of the ordinary British people and the way Britain is now run.
Singapore is presented as the ideal - like Utopia, the icing on the cake but the horrors of "Communist" China are the reality, the festering darkness underneath that most of us can expect under his beloved Communitarianism.
www.tilburguniversity.nl/globus/people/fellows/tam.html
www.zoominfo.com/people/Tam_Henry_901566182.aspx
When you search for accademics on Communitarianism, lots of chinese and singaporeans can be found praising it in their papers. A lot of this stuff is coming from over there.
Good work cheese, Tam was definitely under my radar up til now. His blog is a crack up.. Question the Powerful, eh?
ReplyDeleteI have seen several papers discussing China's experience in building communitarian communities, China was one of the first sources I found for communitarian case law, and I made the statement in our manifesto that Etzioni thinks we should all be rebuilt like Chinese collectives.
The leading "thinkers" on police as a "social resource" and methods for community policing are also coming from China. There's 13 billion people already trained to help "teach" the rest of the unenlightened world how to perform our new global citizenship duties.