Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part 1

In this first episode of a three part instalment, I look at the political theory of communitarianism. In this episode, I focus on on an examination  of the social conditions at the end of the Cold War that gave rise to a communitarian critique of liberalism in particular and modernity in general by such thinkers as Robert Putnam, Michael Sandel and Will Kymlicka. Communitarianism is interesting as a theory in and of itself, but is also interesting in its role as the chief rival to the dominant political theory of liberalism in an era defined by the near monopoly in political theory of the liberal perspective.