The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521483438)

This book challenges the myth that individualism necessarily weakens commitments to the common good. It examines environmental and other activist groups in which individualism sometimes enhances political commitment. Rather than criticize individualism and favor a return to "traditional" values, Paul Lichterman examines the untraditional, personalized politics of many recent social movements and invites us to rethink common understandings of commitment, community, and individualism in a post-traditional world.

Author: Paul Lichterman
ISBN-10: 0521483433
ISBN-13: 9780521483438
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/1996
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.13w x 0.66d