Blair's community - Hale, Sarah

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Blair's community, available in paperback for the first time, is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New Labour under Tony Blair. From the mid-1990s there has been a widespread view that Labour policies have r

Résumé :
Part I Introduction 1. New Labour's communitarianism: first impressions last 2. New Labour's communitarianism: where's the evidence? Part II 3. New Labour's 'communitarian philosophy' 4. 'The wickedest idea of all is the idea of duty': John Macmurray on community, society and service 5. Rights, responsibilities and morality: Amitai Etzioni and New Labour 6. The mysterious absence of British communitarians from the discussion of British communitarianism Part III 7. Community by contract and the myth of New Labour's communitarianism Index...

Biographie:
Sarah Hale is a Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at Birkbeck, University of London...

Sommaire:
Blair's community, available in paperback for the first time, is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New Labour under Tony Blair. From the mid-1990s there has been a widespread view that Labour policies have reflected, or even been influenced by, the work of communitarian writers like Amitai Etzioni and John MacMurray, and philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel. The book begins by establishing that such a view was widely, and frequently unquestioningly, held, in both popular and academic forums. It then identifies reasons for the persistence of this impression, the evidence on which it was based, and the understandings of communitarianism used by commentators. The book argues that existing accounts of New Labour's communitarianism' fail to present an accurate picture because they are - in some cases explicitly - working with a generic or composite conception of communitarianism which bears little relation to the work of the communitarian writers whose names have been associated with the party....