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The Idea Of Civil Society
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Author : Adam B. Seligman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Idea Of Civil Society written by Adam B. Seligman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Political Science categories.
As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while preserving the greater good of society and, similarly, how society can advance the interests of the individuals who comprise it. However, as Seligman shows, the erosion of the very moral beliefs and philosophical assumptions upon which the idea of civil society was founded makes its revival much more difficult than is generally recognized.As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while preserving the greater good of society and, similarly, how society can advance the interests of the individuals who comprise it. However, as Seligman shows, the erosion of the very moral beliefs and philosophical assumptions upon which the idea of civil society was founded makes its revival much more difficult than is generally recognized.
Civil Society
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Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-06
Civil Society written by Sudipta Kaviraj and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-06 with History categories.
Civil society is one of the most used - and abused - concepts in current political thinking. In this important collection of essays, the concept is subjected to rigorous analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the historical and comparative understanding of political thought. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyses the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of Western philosophy. In the second section, contributors consider the theoretical and practical contexts in which the notion of civil society has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These essays demonstrate how an influential Western idea like civil society is itself altered and innovatively modified by the specific contexts of intellectual and practical life in the societies of the South.
Idea Of Civil Society
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Author : Adam Seligman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1992-09-28
Idea Of Civil Society written by Adam Seligman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-28 with Business & Economics categories.
As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while preserving the greater good of society and, similarly, how society can advance the interests of the individuals who comprise it. However, as Seligman shows, the erosion of the very moral beliefs and philosophical assumptions upon which the idea of civil society was founded makes its revival much more difficult than is generally recognized.
The Idea Of Civil Society
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Author : Adam B. Seligman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Idea Of Civil Society written by Adam B. Seligman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Civil society categories.
Seligman argues that the conjoining of individual and public interests as the mutually validating bases upon which civil society depends rests on a synthesis of reason and revelation that began to unravel in the modern West even before it was fully realized. The belief in a transcendent morality or a naive notion of moral sentiments, so central to the idea of civil society from John Locke onward, owed much to the heritage of Christian individualism and thus to an ethos that resists contemporary translation. However, according to Seligman, these ideas did indeed find expression in the social and political reality of one nation - eighteenth-century America. There, what Robert Bellah would later call the American "civil religion," a unique vision of individualism, liberty, and belief in the perfectibility of humankind was created through a synthesis of natural law doctrines and the heritage of Puritanism
Civil Society
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Author : John Ehrenberg
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1999-03
Civil Society written by John Ehrenberg and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with Law categories.
Winner of the 1999 Michael J. Harrington Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science of APSA Examines the tenets of civil society as they have been understood in the past two and a half millennia In the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society. Are they right? What are the roots and implications of their insistent alarm? How can public life be enriched in a period marked by fraying communities, widespread apathy, and unprecedented levels of contempt for politics? How should we be thinking about civil society? Civil Society examines the historical, political, and theoretical evolution of how civil society has been understood for the past two and a half millennia. From Aristotle and the Enlightenment philosophers to Colin Powell's Volunteers for America, Ehrenberg provides an indispensable analysis of the possibilities-and limits-of what this increasingly important idea can offer to contemporary political affairs.
Alternative Conceptions Of Civil Society
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Author : Simone Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Alternative Conceptions Of Civil Society written by Simone Chambers and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Philosophy categories.
The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition, where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal values such as individual freedom, social pluralism, and democratic citizenship. This book considers how a host of other ethical traditions define civil society. Unlike most studies of the subject, which focus on a particular region or tradition, it considers a range of ethical traditions rarely addressed in one volume: libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism. It considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms. A variety of distinguished advocates and interpreters of these traditions present in-depth explorations of how these various traditions think of ethical pluralism within societies, asking how a society should respond to diversity among its members. Together they produce a work rich with original insights on a wide range of subjects about which little has been written to date. An excellent starting point for a comparative ethics of civil society, this book concludes that while the concept of civil society originated in the liberal tradition, it is quickly becoming an important focus for a truly cross-cultural dialogue. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Michael Banner, Hasan Hanafi, Loren E. Lomasky, Richard Madsen, Michael A. Mosher, Michael Pakaluk, Anne Philips, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, and Michael Walzer.
Civil Society And Democracy
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Author : Carolyn M. Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Civil Society And Democracy written by Carolyn M. Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
This book seeks to make accessible a selection of the best pieces written on civil society and brings together theoretical and empirical material. The essays discuss the theory of civil society, civil society in South Asia in particular and ways of strengthening civil society.
Civil Society And Political Theory
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Author : Jean L. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1994-03-29
Civil Society And Political Theory written by Jean L. Cohen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-29 with Philosophy categories.
In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights. In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.
Civil Society Development
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Author : Jude Howell
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Civil Society Development written by Jude Howell and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Setting out to explore critically the way civil society has entered development thinking, policy and practice as a paradigmatic concept of the 21st century, Howell (development studies, U. of Sussex) and Pearce (Latin American politics, U. of Bradford) trace the historical path leading to the encounter between the ideas of development and civil society in the late 1980s and how donors have translated these into development policy an programs. They find that there are competing normative visions, which have deep roots in Western European political thought, about the role of civil society in relation to the state and market both among donors and within the societies where donors are operating. This leads to donors playing a major role in shaping the character of service provision. They also argue that their study exposes the hitherto unexplored power of the market, as opposed to solely the state, to distort donor programs. c. Book News Inc.
The Idea Of A Civil Society
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Author : Bronisław Geremek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Idea Of A Civil Society written by Bronisław Geremek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political Science categories.