The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism

by Bruce Frohnen

This book critiques and challenges the rise of communitarian thought in America. With a skeptical eye, Bruce Frohnen seeks to cut through the communitarians' rhetoric of community, commitment, and spirituality to reveal the egalitarian materialism at the core of their enterprise.

Frohnen argues that the "new communitarians"--exemplified by political philosophers Charles Taylor and William Galston, as well as popularizers like Bill Clinton,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607625
• ISBN13: 9780700607624
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"