Download or read book The Moral Commonwealth written by Philip Selznick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-09-09 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes the intellectual foundations of a new movement in American thought: communitarianism. Emerging in part as a response to the excesses of American individualism, communitarianism seeks to restore the balance between individual rights and social responsibilities.