ABSTRACT
The communitarian account of community is deficient in a number of important respects. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The purpose of the book is to expose those deficiencies and remedy them. The argument is be that, in their own way, the communitarians, and not just the three who have been named for the sake of providing a focus, have also neglected the community. The criticisms that are of concern to this work cover certain themes. Each of these themes are addressed not only through an interpretation of Sartre's position as it appears in Volume 1 of the Critique, but also through the use of Volume 2. The concluding part of this book is a survey of the ways in which communitarianism has been neglectful of community and is presented in terms of deficiencies in the communitarian account of community.
