Freedom of Association

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Amy Gutmann
Princeton University Press, 1998 M08 23 - 382 páginas

Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly all sorts. Social scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether decreasing proportions of Americans over the past several decades have been joining secondary associations, but no one disputes that freedom of association remains a fundamental personal and political value in the United States. "Nothing," Alexis de Tocqueville argued, "deserves more attention." Yet the value and limits of free association in the United States have not received the attention they deserve. Why is freedom of association valuable for the lives of individuals? What does it contribute to the life of a liberal democracy? This volume explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom.


Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association by Amy Gutmann, the first part of this timely volume includes essays on individual rights of association by George Kateb, Michael Walzer, Kent Greenawalt, and Nancy Rosenblum, and the second part includes essays on civic values of association by Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, Daniel A. Bell, Sam Fleischacker, Alan Ryan, and Stuart White.

 

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Freedom of Association An Introductory Essay
3
The Value of Association
35
On Involuntary Association
64
Compelled Association Public Standing SelfRespect and the Dynamic of Exclusion
75
Freedom of Association and Religious Association
109
Rights Reasons and Freedom of Association
145
Ethnic Associations and Democratic Citizenship
177
Revisiting the Civic Sphere
214
Civil Society versus Civic Virtue
239
Insignificant Communities
273
The City as a Site for Free Association
314
The City as a Site for Free Association
330
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
357
INDEX
359
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Amy Gutmann is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor and founding director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her books include Democratic Education and, with Anthony Appiah, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (both books available from Princeton) and, with Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement.

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