Amitai Etzioni (1929–2023)
Autor de The Spirit of Community
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Amitai Etzioni, one of the most respected public intellectuals, argues for a new liberal communitarian approach as an effective response to populism. It recognizes that different members of the society have differing values, interests and needs that cannot be fully reconciled in a populist age. The mostrar más book considers the core challenges in contexts including national security versus privacy, private sector responsibility, freedom of the press, campaign finance reform, regulatory law and the legal status of terrorists. It offers a timely discussion of the relationship of the law to the citizen in a fast-changing society. mostrar menos
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Obras de Amitai Etzioni
Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism (Library of Public Policy and Public… (2018) 18 copias
The hard way to peace: a new strategy 11 copias
Voluntary Simplicity: Responding to Consumer Culture (Rights & Responsibilities) (2003) — Editor — 11 copias
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Introducción; Contribuidor — 6 copias
Privacy in a Cyber Age: Policy and Practice (Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity) (2015) 3 copias
A Responsive Society: Collected Essays on Guiding Deliberate Social Change (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) (1991) 3 copias
Maatschappelijk sturen en maatschappelijk mobiliseren : proeven van macro-sociologische analyse 2 copias
The Responsive Community - Rights and Responsibilities / Volume 3, Issue 4 / Fall 1993 (1993) 2 copias
Siegen ohne Krieg 1 copia
The Responsive Community - Rights and Responsibilities / Volume 2, Issue 1 / Winter 1991-92 (1991) 1 copia
The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, Vol 3, Issue 1 (Winter 1992-93) (1993) 1 copia
The Importance of Belonging 1 copia
War and its prevention 1 copia
Modern Organisations 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Universalism vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World (2006) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Etzioni, Amitai
- Nombre legal
- Falk, Werner (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-01-04
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2023-05-31
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Germany
Israel
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Cologne, Germany
- Lugares de residencia
- Athens, Greece
Berkeley, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Haifa, Palestine
Herzliya Gimmel, Palestine
Ben Shemen, Palestine (mostrar todos 8)
Tel Yosef, Palestine
Jerusalem, Israel - Educación
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) (sociology) (1954)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA) (sociology) (1956)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD) (sociology) (1958) - Ocupaciones
- sociologist
Senior Advisor to the President of the United States
professor - Relaciones
- Lipset, Seymour Martin (doctoral adviser)
- Organizaciones
- The George Washington University
Harvard Business School
Communitarian Network
Palmach
American Sociological Association (president) - Premios y honores
- Officer's Cross in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
Guggenheim Fellowship - Biografía breve
- Amitai Etzioni was born Werner Falk to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany. He was only four years old when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. Both of his parents fled the country, and he was smuggled out to meet them in Italy. The family was stuck in Athens, Greece for a year, unable to enter the British Mandate of Palestine until their paperwork was resolved. Finally, he began to learn Hebrew at their new home in Haifa. At this time, he adopted the Hebrew first name Amitai. In 1946, at age 17, he dropped out of high school to join the Palmach, the elite fighting force of Haganah, the underground army of the Jewish community. He took the Hebrew surname Etzioni, which he had used as a pen name when he started writing at age 15. After fighting in Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Etzioni spent a year studying at a special academic institute established by Martin Buber. In 1951, he enrolled in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology. In 1957, he went to the USA to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research assistant to Seymour Martin Lipset and received his PhD in sociology in 1958. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in New York that same year, and rose to become a full professor and the chairman of the Department of Sociology in 1969. From 1979 to 1980, he served as a senior adviser to the White House and in the latter year became the first University Professor at George Washington University. In 1987-1989, he served as the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. In 1989, he founded the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics (SASE), an international, interdisciplinary organization, and served as its first president. The following year, he founded the Communitarian Network, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to support the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He was the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, the organization's quarterly journal, from 1991 to 2004. Etzioni was a member of the Science Information Council of the National Science Foundation, and a member of the Social Problems Research Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as a consultant to many organizations. He contributed more than 80 articles to professional journals and books and wrote numerous books, of which the best known is The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes (1968). He frequently appeared as a commentator in the news media.
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Etzioni directs the thrust of his critique against neoconservative intellectuals who believe that Middle Eastern autocracies can be forcibly democratized, regardless of culture, tradition, or history. As Etzioni writes, liberal democracy is not a normal, unremarkable phenomenon, but “a delicate plant that grows only under favorable conditions; it needs to be cultivated carefully by those who aim to live under it rather than by those who wish it for them.”
A central theme of Security First, and one greatly at odds with American foreign policy orthodoxy, is that only a minority of the world’s population want to live under democracy as most Americans understand it. An overwhelming majority of the world’s people fall under a category the author calls “illiberal moderates,” persons for whom tradition and faith trump liberty, but who also reject violence and coercion. The author argues the United States must appeal to, rather than alienate through quixotic ventures, this central demographic of world population.
Etzioni also formulates a foreign policy that places security (both American and global) and “primacy of life” at the center strategic thinking. Such a policy would be both muscular and nuanced. For example, Etzioni writes that public censures by American officials about Russia’s return to authoritarian government are not only counterproductive, but even dangerous, because they make the Kremlin less willing cooperate with America in securing the country’s nuclear weapons and other materials. On the other hand, the primacy of life side of Etzioni’s policy would call for military intervention in places like Rwanda and Darfur, when a regime is clearly bent on mass murder. Etzioni argues convincingly that if the United States were consistent in such a policy, massacres and genocides would over time become less likely as each military intervention added great deterrence to the ambitions of some of the world’s most evil rulers.
Security First is an important booked written by a distinguished scholar. The one criticism I would make is that the author does not take into account the possibility that the United States does have a duty to stand morally with people who cherish our ideals, even when we can offer little practical assistance. I am thinking of the courageous Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered for her reporting on Chechnya and Russia. Does America have a moral responsibility to stand with defenders of law and freedom like Politkovskaya, or does security sometimes mean ignoring dissidents in order to pursue strategic goals like nuclear containment. This is the principal moral dilemma I find missing in Dr. Etzioni’s otherwise outstanding book.
(Published in Catholic Library World, March 2008)… (más)