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Next: The Road to the Good Society
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Binding: Hardcover
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Label: Basic Books New York
Manufacturer: Basic Books New York
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: January 31, 2001
Publisher: Basic Books New York
Studio: Basic Books New York
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Editorial Review:
The last eight years have seen the ascendancy of the political center in American politics.While applauding this move away from the extremes of both left and right, Amitai Etzioni argues that we still lack a clearly articulated political agenda for the next decade. With both presidential candidates staking their claim to the hallowed buy hollow center, the major parties are failing to address in any meaningful way our pressing domestic issues, including gun control, comprehensive health care, and poverty. Equal parts diagnosis and manifesto, Next issues a bracing call for greater political and community involvement. Arguing that our world-leading economy offers more opportunities that ever to end scarcity and break out of the cycle of materialism, Etzioni reacquaints the reader with the social, cultural, and spiritual values that must guide our approach to public policy questions. Making a strong case for the need for a "moderate counterculture" to temper the excesses of our stock market-obsessed society, Etzioni outlines a novel domestic agenda for tackling the principal challenges facing us in the decade to come.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Very disappointing, but sometimes funny
I ordered this book with high hopes. The reviews led me to believe it offered concrete suggestions for pressing problems. It just isn't so.
This book seems to be primarily for people who want to rationalize the status quo: others suffer for reasons you can't influence, you are a good person for just talking about problems in the world while doing nothing about them, etc. If you believe people who suffer get what they deserve or are simply a side-effect of the glorious free market ... Read More
Rating:  - The good society -- and moral responsibility
This essay deals with how to develop what civilized people have been craving since the ancient Greeks or earlier: the good society. This is basically a question of social ethics, and for the author the good society is one in which a preponderance of relations among people are of the I-thou type. Some of our relations are necessarily of the instrumental, I-it kind in which we use people (to some extent) in order to achieve our goals, but in the good society these will be strictly limited in number ... Read More
Rating: - Provacative
Amitai Etzioni has produced yet another stimulating book. With the enormous economic success of the 1990s, Etzioni asks us to think about what's next? The pot of gold is also filled with a golden rule. In Next, Etzioni sets an agenda for a rich society to become a good society. Using the communitarian approach, for which he has become the leading advocate, Etzioni not only points out the necessary components of a good society, but shows us how to get there.
Etzioni outlines what he calls a centrist ... Read More
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