The Evolution of Communitarian Ideas: History, Theory and Practice

Intro -- Contents -- 1 The Roots of Communitarian Ideas -- Lineage, Meaning and Significance -- Underlying Outlook and Key Elements -- Mutual Responsibility -- Cooperative Enquiry -- Citizen Participation -- Germinal Debates About Communities -- The Evolution of an Ethos -- References -- 2 The Emergence of Communitarian Challenges: 1400s-1600s -- Rethinking Communities -- The Renaissance and Proto-Communitarian Trends -- The Quest for Mutual Responsibility from More to Winstanley and Penn -- The Quest for Cooperative Enquiry from Bacon to Wilkins and the Royal Society -- The Quest for Citizen Participation from the Levellers to Harrington and Sidney -- Hobbessian, Lockean, or Communitarian -- References -- 3 Towards Enlightened Communities: The Eighteenth Century -- The Transformation of Communities -- Empathic Communities: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson -- Critical Communities: Hume and Diderot -- Democratic Communities: Thomas Paine -- Enlightenment Through Learning: Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, and Jefferson -- References -- 4 Beyond Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century -- Robert Owen, Cooperation and Communitarianism -- Neither Gemeinschaft nor Gesellschaft -- Reforming Communities: The French Solidarity Advocates -- Reforming Communities: The British New Liberals -- Reforming Communities: The American Progressive Pragmatists -- References -- 5 Critiques of Depersonalisation: 1920s-1980s -- The Threat of Depersonalisation -- Contesting the Depersonalising Market -- Critiques of the Atomistic Self -- References -- 6 Communitarianism Articulated: 1989-2001 -- Democratic Communitarian Responses to Market Forces -- Liberal Communitarian Responses to Moral Clashes -- Communitarianism: Towards a Progressive Synthesis -- References -- 7 Tackling Community Disempowerment Post-2001.