Amitai Etzioni (Hebrew: אמיתי עציוני; né Werner Falk; 4 January 1929 – 31 May 2023) was an Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He established the network to disseminate the movement's ideas. His writings argue for a carefully crafted balance between individual rights and social responsibilities, and between autonomy and order, in social structure. In 2001, he was named among the top 100 American intellectuals, as measured by academic citations, in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. (From Wikipedia)
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Etzioni, Amitai: The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes (New York: The Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1968) (PDF with commentary at gwu.edu)- Etzioni, Amitai, ed.: The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials (delisted 26 Feb 2021 due to disappearance of hosting site), also ed. by Drew Volmert and Elanit Rothschild
- Etzioni, Amitai: Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism (Cham: SpringerOpen, c2018), contrib. by Oren Etzioni (PDF and Epub with commentary at springer.com)
- Etzioni, Amitai: Reclaiming Patriotism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, c2019) (PDF with commentary at gwu.edu)
- Etzioni, Amitai, contrib.: There's a Future: Visions for a Better World (Madrid: BBVA, c2012), also contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Sohail Inayatullah, Jerome C. Glenn, José M. Sánchez Ron, Kevin Warwick, Sandip Tiwari, José M. Mato, Paul Raskin, Wallace S. Broecker, Mitchell Joachim, Melanie Fessel, Joaquín Vial, Clara Barrabés, Carola Moreno, Daniel Altman, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Claus Leggewie, Jennifer Gidley, Anne Lise Kjaer, and Beatriz A. Lara Bartolomé (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
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