Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-1996
Abstract
Communitarianism has risen to prominence in recent debates in political philosophy largely on the strength of its criticisms of liberalism. Among its more important criticisms is the charge that liberal political thinking does not properly appreciate the value of community. At a deeper level, communitarian ism asserts that liberalism is infected by confusions about the nature of community, thinking?mistakenly?that it is no more than an associa tion of separate, isolated, 'atomistic' individuals. Communitarians thus advance not only certain claims about value but also other claims about how the human world should be understood.
Discipline
Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Australian Quarterly
Volume
68
Issue
1
First Page
67
Last Page
76
ISSN
0005-0091
Identifier
10.2307/20634718
Publisher
Australian Institute of Political Science
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran.(1996). Against the communitarian republic. Australian Quarterly, 68(1), 67-76.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2956
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2307/20634718