![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Etzioni was pulled back into the car at the last moment by his father, but as noted in his memoir, this memory foreshadowed the upcoming doom that would overtake his homeland during the Nazi rule. Etzioni was only four years old when the car he was riding in made a sharp turn and in response, he grabbed a handle that opened the door. Etzioni is currently the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University.Īmitai Etzioni was born Werner Falk in Cologne, Germany in 1929 to a Jewish family.Etzioni's earliest memory is being thrown out of a car in Cologne, Germany in January 1933. In 2001, Etzioni was named among the top 100 American intellectuals, as measured by academic citations, in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. His writings emphasize the importance for all societies to have a carefully crafted balance between rights and responsibilities and between autonomy and order. He was the founder of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s and established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas. He leads the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to support the moral, social, and political foundations of society. Amitai Etzioni ( / ˈ æ m ɪ t aɪ ˌ ɛ t s i ˈ oʊ n i/ born Werner Falk, January 4, 1929) is a German-born American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism.
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