books by Amitai Etzioni

books by Amitai Etzioni

books:

Amitai Etzioni

From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations

Amitai Etzioni

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

An Antidote to Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" Theory
You could buy Mr. Lackey's ridiculous harangue of Professor Etzioni's "From Empire to Community" or you could consider the glowing assessments by the likes of former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard Kennedy School ex-Dean Joseph Nye, Dutch Prime ...

Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility

Neil Gilbert

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Important intellectual achievement
This is a great book. The analysis is deep, multidimensional and impartial, there are important observations but no connotations. There are important assertions and "loose ends" at the same time, the author does not pretend to make final conclusions, the book makes you ...

The New Golden Rule: Community And Morality In A Democratic Society

Amitai Etzioni

Basic Books, 1998

Learned Introduction to Social Ethics
My eyes glazed over in places, and I had to struggle to finish the book, but on balance believe the author provides a learned introduction to social ethics and the topic of how morality, community, and democracy are inter-twined. My over-arching note on the book is ...

The Limits Of Privacy

Amitai Etzioni

Basic Books, 2000

One man's view of privacy
This book gives the pros and cons of several policies and practices concerning privacy. I found it refreshing to have a book that tries to be balanced. People at the extremes will not agree with the author's view that technnology is not all bad or all good. It is not ...

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials (Rights and Responsibilities (Lanham, MD.).)
Amitai Etzioni

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers reflecting on issues ranging from moral obligations to civil liberties after 9/11. The result is a book both practical and theoretical, and an essential guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement.

Spirit Of Community

Amitai Etzioni

Touchstone, 1994

Common Sense Revisted
Communitarianism, I believe, is the natural, common sense philosophy towards personal, social and political life that the majority of this nation holds. Before Dr. Etzioni and his cohorts in the DC area gathered, no one had put into words what many of us have felt and ...

The Essential Communitarian Reader
Amitai Etzioni

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998

This comprehensive collection contains essays from the nation's most respected thinkers, including Mary Ann Glendon, Senator Bill Bradley, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and many others.

How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism

Amitai Etzioni

Routledge, 2004

Comments on How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?
On Amitai Etzioni's How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom versus Security in the Age of Terrorism, comments by Robert B. Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Patrick Henry proclaimed, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Amitai Etzioni asks: If you are dead, what ...

Modern Organizations (Foundations of Modern Sociology)
Amitai Etzioni

Prentice Hall, 1964

Rights and the Common Good: The Communitarian Perspective
Amitai Etzioni

Wadsworth Publishing, 1994

This is a provocative new book that examines the relationship between individual rights and social responsibilities. The book's thirty essays explore the foundations of communitarian thought as well as the implications of communitarian ideas for contemporary public and social policy. The essays also discuss how communities can be strengthened and ...

Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy

Amitai Etzioni

Yale University Press, 2007

Review of Security First
Democracy is a beautiful flower, but it does not grow wherever its seed is cast. Both neoconservatives and liberal internationalists have been seduced by the idea that if we promote democracy, peace and security will follow. They have it backwards, according to Amitai ...

New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities (Constitutionalism and Democracy)

University of Virginia Press, 1995

Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy and the future of liberalism and liberal societies. These essays bring communitarian thinking to bear on such contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech and personal autonomy.

Moral Dimension : Toward a New Economics
Amitai Etzioni

Free Press, 1990

Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic ...

The Monochrome Society (New Forum Books)

Amitai Etzioni

Princeton University Press, 2003

Roadmap to the Good Society?
The Monochrome Society (along with the recent Next: The Road to the Good Society) continues Amitai Etzioni's role as a leading voice in 'communitarian' thought. In chapters ranging from social philosophy to sociology, law, and social policy, he pursues practical means ...

The Active Society

Amitai Etzioni

Free Press, 1971

Seminal Thinking About Society, Power, and Elites
Rather than being out of print, this book should be required reading for all who those who would like to understand the relationship between freedoms, democracy, elites, and distribution of power and wealth--and the effects of changes in these elements on individual ...