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Daniel Bell.Communitarianism and Its Critiques.
Jack Crittenden.Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self.
Markate Daly.Communitarianis: A New Public Ethics.
Amitai Etzioni.The Active Society.
Amitai Etzioni.A Responsive Society.
Robert Booth Fowler.The Dance with Community.
Stephen Holmes.The Anatomy of Antiliberalism.
Alasdair MacIntyre.After Virtue.
Dereck Phillips.Looking Backward: A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought.
Philip Selznick.Moral Commonwealth.
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Before that, he served as Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He was a White House advisor in the final year of the Carter Administration and is presently the president of the American Sociological Association. Among his best-known works are The Active Society; Public Policy in a New Key; Modern Organization; The Spirit of Community;and The Moral Dimension.
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Etzioni, A. The attack on community: The grooved debate. Society 32, 12–17 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02693331
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