Original scientific paper
Liberalism and Communitarism: On Certain Aphorias of Contemporary Theretical Discourse
Jürgen Gephardt
; University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract
The author looks into the political, historical and intellectual begginings of the debate about liberalism and communitarianism in the USA from the standpoint of sociology. Then he goes on to describe its reception in Europe and finally to depict in greater detail its course in Germany. The purpose of the whole analysis may be reduced to the investigation of the possibilities for a transfer of theoretical and political debates from one into another national and social and political hermeneutical situation. On one hand, the author is sceptical towards such transfers since they are at the same time very courageous transformations, while on the other this points to the common economic and political characteristics of contemporary industrial societies of the West which enable such transfers and make them understandable.
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110635
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Publication date:
4.9.1995.
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