Word: communitarianism
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...Revolution’s emphasis was less on liberty than it was about equality and fraternity in a “regenerated” social world. Individuals had rights, of course, but these rights were to find their true meaning, or so the French revolutionaries supposed, in a highly communitarian definition of what citizenship should be. The idea of free-standing pioneers and lonesome cowboys struggling on alone in distant places on some lonely trek has no place in French folklore. And while the Revolution was not as successful as its early proponents had hoped, some of that publicly defined...
...national parks - and The National Parks - are based on ideas that are classically, if not radically, communitarian: That the free market doesn't always act in the public interest. That it's good that every American shares ownership of and responsibility for the most exclusive properties in the country. And that it is right for people - through government - to protect them from business interests and even from the people themselves (like the early visitors who shot game and scratched their names on ancient rocks). A series on a public-TV network that calls a government program America's best idea...
...enjoy the arts and to share in... its benefits.” The audience was amused and moved as they participated in the “rehearsal” and “performance,” evoking Bhabha’s remarks on the value of participation in communitarian artistic and humanistic pedagogy. Each participant stood with one arm raised as though he were blocking the moonlight, brought his hand to the heart, and opened his arms to the heavens. In the ballet, this passage invokes the birth of the ballerina; here, the cello accompaniment...
...government professor Michael J. Sandel—who teaches the perennially popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—as another key factor in bringing him to this level of political involvement. Zuckerman said that while he takes issue with some aspects of the communitarian ethic that Sandel espouses, the two courses he took with Sandel last year “definitely underscored for me the important role that active participation in public life plays in keeping our democracy robust.” While on campus, Zuckerman says he was able...
...that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets galore: Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, all going down.But for me, only three games mattered. Let’s approach from a communitarian perspective (big-ups to my man Michael Sandel, I know you’re reading this column, and I just want to say, you’re so enlightened, and stuff, like, I mean, wow, smart, and you’re modeled after Mr. Burns from the Simpsons...