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Law, Politics, And The Claims Of Community, Stephen A. Gardbaum
Law, Politics, And The Claims Of Community, Stephen A. Gardbaum
Michigan Law Review
This article aims to provide this needed analysis and then to show how it illuminates many of the exchanges taking place within the legal academy. It argues that the first step toward understanding "the claims of community" - whether in law or moral and political theory - is to recognize that, as the phrase itself suggests, more than one claim is involved. Merely to observe that the various proponents of community have as yet failed to establish a common and coherent communitarian position, though certainly true, is to miss the more critical insight: they are not engaged in such an …