Freedom of Association

Published by Princeton University Press 1998

Freedom of Association

Edited by: Amy Gutmann

Volume 17 in the series The University Center for Human Values Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691219387

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"This collection of essays is the best one-volume introduction to a timely topic: the nature, purposes, moral justifications of (and limitations on) freedom of association in liberal democracies. The contributors link broad philosophical questions to specific practical issues in ways that both philosophers and readers with legal and policy concerns will find illuminating."—William A. Galston, Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland

"Freedom of Association is exemplary in the consistently high quality and thematic continuity of the contributions."---Margaret Kohn, Political Theory

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER ONE Freedom of Association: An Introductory Essay Amy Gutmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: INDIVIDUAL VALUES OF ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER TWO The Value of Association George Kateb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER THREE On Involuntary Association Michael Walzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
CHAPTER FOUR Compelled Association: Public Standing, Self-Respect, and the Dynamic of Exclusion Nancy L. Rosenblum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER FIVE Freedom of Association and Religious Association Kent Greenawalt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
CHAPTER SIX Rights, Reasons, and Freedom of Association Peter de Marneffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
PART II: CIVIC VALUES OF ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Associations and Democratic Citizenship Will Kymlicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
CHAPTER EIGHT Revisiting the Civic Sphere Yael Tamir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
CHAPTER NINE Civil Society versus Civic Virtue Daniel A. Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
CHAPTER TEN Insignificant Communities Sam Fleischacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
CHAPTER ELEVEN The City as a Site for Free Association Alan Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
CHAPTER TWELVE Trade Unionism in a Liberal State Stuart White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359