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Discuss the communitarian critique of liberalism.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 20 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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Communitarianism took shape in the 1980s as a reply to the rights-based liberalism that had revived after John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971). Its authors, Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer, put community where liberalism puts the individual, and attack its premises rather than its policies.

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  • Why It Arose
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