The Common GoodISBN: 978-0-7456-3267-4
Paperback
256 pages
June 2004, Polity
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Etzioni asks how we can strike a healthy balance between
individual rights and public safety in an age of global terrorism.
He evaluates various new government devices, from wiretaps to
viruses, which open our lives to public scrutiny. Particular
attention is given to the issues surrounding government-issued DNA
tests. The book concludes by questioning whether we can still talk
of a relationship between the common good and the nation-state, or
whether the “online” society in which we live will make
it increasingly difficult to maintain those communities which are
the very homeland of the common good.
This new book, by one of the world’s leading social and political thinkers, will be important reading for students and scholars of political science, social philosophy, sociology, and public policy, as well as for the interested general reader.