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About this book
This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. It provides a comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it.
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Subtopic
PoliticsIndex
Alberti, G., 113
Almond, G., 143
anti-politics, 11, 132
Arato, A., 18, 19, 27, 91, 102, 109, 112, 113, 125, 131, 142, 159
Arnason, J., 27
artificial order, 72
atomization, 17, 68, 125, 126
authoritarianism, 18, 22, 77
Balcerowicz, L., 138
Barthes, R., 115
Bauman, Z., 136, 143, 159
Beetham, D., 4, 76, 92
Benjamin, W., 124, 126
Bentham, J., 72, 92
Berger, P., 77, 92
Bhagwati, J., 92
Blumenberg, H., 116, 131
Bodin, J., 64, 74
Bohrer, K.-H., 128, 129, 131
Brittan, S., 72, 75
Burawoy, M., 143
bureaucracy, 108, 113
capitalism, 5, 9, 41, 70, 77, 78, 80, 83, 115, 119, 124, 133, 136
Carrithers, M., 112
Chirac, J., 141
citizen, 1, 10, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 54, 66, 81, 84, 89, 90, 94, 95, 103, 125, 127, 135, 139, 142, 147, 149, 151, 153, 157
citizenship, 4, 38, 45, 80, 88, 94, 95, 96, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Understanding Civil Society: A Preface
- Civil Society Theory, Enlightenment and Critique
- Civic or Commercial? Adam Ferguson’s Concept of Civil Society
- The Politics of the Division of Labour: Smith and Hegel on Civil Society
- The Emergence of the Idea of Civil Society: The Artificial Political Order and the Natural Social Orders
- Market Economy and Democratic Polity
- Bowling in the Bronx: The Uncivil Interstices between Civil and Political Society
- Civil Society or Constitutional Patriotism?
- Myths from Eastern Europe and the Legend of the West
- Learning to be a Citizen: Cognitive and Ethical Aspects of Post-communist Society Transformation
- Civil Society: A Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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