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1. The communitarian persuasion / Philip Selznick -- 2. Reinventing community and citizenship in the global era : a critique of the communitarian concept of community / Gerard Delanty -- 3. Communitarianism and the practice of toleration / Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves -- 4. Nonconformism and community / Avner de-Shalit -- 5. Community zoos, theme park cultures and the right to leave them all / Burkhard Schäfer -- 6. Citizenship rights, gender and politics of difference / Elizabeth Kingdom -- 7. Social citizenship and social rights / Cecile Fabre -- 4. Social citizenship, re-commodification and the contract state / Paul Havemann -- 9. The corporate republic : complex organizations and citizenship / Mark Bovens -- 10. Civil society as the community of citizens : Adam Ferguson's alternative to liberalism / John Varty -- 11. 'Baffling' criticism of an 'ill-equipped' theory : an intervention in the exchange between MacIntyre and Taylor / Arto Laitinen -- 12. The community of friends / Sandra E. Marshall -- 13. Doing justice to particulars / Scott Veitch.

Abstract
Alasdair MacIntyre is an Aristotelian critic of communitarianism, which he understands to be committed to the politics of the capitalist and bureaucratic nation-state. The politics he proposes instead is based in the resistance to managerial institutions of what he calls 'practices', because these are schools of virtue. This shares little with the communitarianism of a Taylor or the Aristotelianism of a Gadamer. Although practices require formal institutions. MacIntyre opposes such conservative politics. Conventional accounts of a 'liberal-communitarian debate' in political philosophy face the dilemma that Alasdair MacIntyre, often identified as a paradigmatic communitarian, has consistently and emphatically repudiated this characterization. Although neo-Aristotelianism is sometimes seen as a philosophical warrant for communitarian politics, MacIntyre's Aristotelianism is opposed to communitarianism. This paper explores the rationale of that opposition.

This article argues that communitarianism can be analysed on different levels—sociological, ethical and meta—ethical—and along different di mensions—conformist—pluralist, more conditional-less conditional, progressive-conservative, prescriptive-voluntary, moral-socioeconomic and individual-corporate. We argue that New Labour's communitarian ism is a response to both neo-liberalism and old social democracy. It is sociological, ethical and universalist rather than particularist on the meta-ethical level. Labour increasingly favours conditional, morally pre scriptive, conservative and individual communitarianisms. This is at the expense of less conditional and redistributional socioeconomic, progress ive and corporate communitarianisms. It is torn between conformist and pluralist versions of communitarianism. This bias is part of a wider shift in Labour thinking from social democracy to a liberal conservatism which celebrates the dynamic market economy and is socially conserva tive.

A transcription of a roundtable discussion on communitarianism. As a working description, communitarianism refers to political & social sentiments somewhat akin to populism: recapturing political control in local communities, & reconstructing the social basis to better support family structures. The history of the idea -- appropriated in different historical moments by both the Left (in the 1930s) & the Right (in the 1980s) -- as well as its basis in political theory, are debated. Why communitarianism has resurfaced as an important political issue in the US today & whether it represents a real possibility in the future are two of the key questions discussed. M. Maguire