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The Communitarian Update
Number 13
January 8, 1999
Happy, healthy new year to all of you, your families, and communities.
Betty Friedan just joined the distinguished list of activists and scholars who will
participate in the Communitarian Summit. Among the others are: Deborah Tannen; Ira
Magziner, White House privacy czar; Leading theologian Thandeka; Philip Selznick;
Tom Tyler and many more!
The Communitarian Summit will take place at the Washington National Airport
Hilton in Arlington, Virginia on February 27-28, 1999. SPACE IS RAPIDLY FILLING
UP. For full details and registration information, see our website, http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps.
The upcoming issue of The Responsive Community commemorates the 70th birthday of
Amitai Etzioni with a look back at his work.
Featured articles include: "Taking Autonomy Seriously" by WILLIAM R. LUND; "Macroscopic
Action" by HANS JOAS; "The Apolitics of Community" by DENNIS H. WRONG; "From Compliance
to Community" by EDWARD W. LEHMAN; "The Rules of Engagement and the Argument Culture"
by DEBORAH TANNEN; "When Theory Meets Practice: Communitarian Ethics and the Family"
by DON BROWNING; "Communitarian Families" by DAVID M. ANDERSON; "Genetic Fix at Twenty-Five"
by THOMAS MAGNELL; "Toward an International Human Rights (and Responsibilities) Regime"
by DANIEL A. BELL; "Rediscovering British Communitarianism" by HENRY TAM; "A Spanish
Perspective on Communitarianism" by JOSE PEREZ ADAN; "Making Communities More Responsive"
by ROBERT E. GOODIN; "Amitai Etzioni: An American Individualist" by EVERETT C. LADD;
"Tough Questions for Liberal Communitarians" by BENJAMIN R. BARBER; "Roadblocks on the
Deliberative Path" by DENNIS CHONG; "Commitment, the Multiple-Self Approach, and
Communitarianism" by ELIAS KHALIL; as well as special messages from President Clinton,
Vice President Gore, Bill Bennet, and others.
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Founder's Prize
An anonymous donor has pledged $2500 a year for the next five years for the SASE
Founder's Prize. This award is given to writers who augment, criticize, or challenge
the work of Amitai Etzioni, the founder of SASE. This year's prize will be awarded
to papers presented at the 11th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics Madison, Wisconsin.
To be eligible papers must be presented at the 1999 SASE meeting. For more information,
visit the SASE web site at http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/sase99/.
New Publications
The Second Edition of The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation by Susan Tolchin,
was recently published by Westview Press.
Soul Work: Finding the Work You Love, Loving the Work You Have by Deborah P. Bloch and Lee
Richmond was published in the fall by Davies-Black (Consulting Psychologists Press). This
book examines the concept of careers within the context of seven themes, including community.
International Communitarian Projects:
The UK Communitarian Forum has launched a new initiative in conjunction with the Local
Government Association, tentatively called Citizenship 21, which will promote new ideas
and effective practices for participating in society. The German communitarian chapter,
Dekomnetz, is growing rapidly under the stewardship of Dr. Hans Nuebel. Visit Dekomnetz
on the web at http://members.aol.com/dekomnetz/basis.html.
Send your brief news items for future Updates to us at comnet@gwu.edu. For further
reading, see the extensive communitarian bibliography on our web site.
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