A Communitarian Critique of Liberalism

Bibliographic Data

ID7531369
AuthorsDaniel A Bell (0000-0002-5521-3383, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume27
Issue2
Pages215-238
Publication date2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnalyse & Kritik (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0171-5860 • E-ISSN: 2365-9858
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/auk-2005-0201
OpenAlexW2314200414
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited11

Communitarian thinkers have argued that liberalism devalues community in modern societies. This essay assesses the three main strands of the contemporary debate betweeen communitarianism and liberalism: (1) the communitarian critique of the liberal universalism, (2) the communitarian critique of liberal individualism, and (3) the communitarian critique of liberal politics. In each case, it is argued that the debate has moved from fairly abstract philosophical controversies to more concrete engagement with political disputes in Western as well as East Asian societies

Collectivism · Communitarianism · Environmental ethics · Individualism · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Universalism · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religious Freedom and Discrimination