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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.
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 : 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.
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.
Civil Society
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Author : Robert Fine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Civil Society written by Robert Fine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Political Science categories.
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.
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.
Civil Society And Democratic Theory
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Author : Gideon Baker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-08-27
Civil Society And Democratic Theory written by Gideon Baker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-27 with Political Science categories.
This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal democratic vision of civil society? * Is a democracy located in civil society rather than the state either possible or desirable? * How and why has the concept of civil society come to be used so widely today? * Can global civil society further the struggle for democracy initiated by national civil societies?
Exploring Civil Society
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Author : Marlies Glasius
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Exploring Civil Society written by Marlies Glasius and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Political Science categories.
This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States, Africa and South Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors show that there are multiple interpretations of the concept that depend more on the particular political configuration in different parts of the world than on cultural predilections. They also demonstrate that the power of civil society depends less on abstract definitions, and more on the extent to which it is grounded in the context of actual experiences from around the world. This book includes some of the biggest names in the area such as Mary Kaldor, Ronnie Lipschutz and Helmut Anheier.
The Idea Of Global Civil Society
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Author : Randall Germain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
The Idea Of Global Civil Society written by Randall Germain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Business & Economics categories.
This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance. Bridging the normative concerns of political theorists with the historical and institutional focus of scholars of international relations and international political economy, this book is of broad interest to students and researchers concerned with international relations, civil society, global governance and ethics.