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Essays on the issue of community and contemporary political thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Concept of Moral Ecology by Allen D. Hertzke and Chris McRorie
Are Communitarians "Premodern" or "Postmodern?" The Place of Communitarian Thought in Contemporary Political Theory by Murray Jardine
How Much of Communitarianism is Left (and Right)? by Marc Stier
Does Robert Bellah Care about History? by Bruce Frohnen
Universal Benevolence, Adjective Justice, and the Rousseauean Way by Brad Lowell Stone
Communitarianism and the Federal Idea by Wilfred M. McClay
Readings of Therapeutic Culture: From Phillip Reiff to Robert Bellah by Alan Woolfolk
Advice from a Tocquevillian Liberal: Arendt, Tocqueville, and the Liberal-Communitarian Debate by Barry Sharpe
Liberal Ironism and the Decay of Citizenship by Joseph Knippenberg
Bloom's Ineffectual Response to Rorty by Peter Augustine Lawler
Romanticism, Cultural Literacy, and the Great Books: The Goals of Education by Mary P. Nichols
The Illiberal Leo Strauss by Robb A. McDaniel
The Experience of Totalitarianism and the Recovery of Nature: Reflections on Philosophy and Community in the Thought of Solzhenitsyn, Havel, and Strauss by Daniel J. Mahoney
The Universal and the Particular: Of Nations and Empires in Raymond Aron's Thought by Brian C. Anderson
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER is Professor of Political Science at Berry College, Georgia. He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 100 articles and book chapters.

DALE MCCONKEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Freshman Center at Berry College. He has written various works on the sociology of religion.