num_pages: 568
description: Philip Selznick's study of moral and social theory establishes the intellectual foundations of an important new movement in American thought: communitarianism. Emerging in part as a response to the excesses of American individualism - particularly rampant during the 1980s - communitarianism seeks to restore the balance between individual rights and social responsibilities. The Moral Commonwealth attempts to explain and justify this communitarian turn and give it a liberal interpretation.
language: English
title: The Moral Commonwealth
titlecomplete: The Moral Commonwealth
genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 18
publisher: University of California Press