Civil Society is one of the most used--and abused--concepts in current political thinking. Fifteen leading scholars clarify the theoretical meanings of the concept as well as consider the different historical contexts in which it has been used outside the West. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyzes 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 this idea has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Civil Society is one of the most used--and abused--concepts in current political thinking. Fifteen leading scholars clarify the theoretical meanings of the concept as well as considering the different historical contexts in which it has been used outside the West. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyzes 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 this idea has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Fugitive in its senses, the idea of civil society infiltrates all efforts to assess the possibilities and threats revealed by the glacial political shifts at the turn of the century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
condolence meeting, civil social institutions, collective human existence, societas civilis, legitimate political order, civil values, civil society, intellectual mainstream, ancient polis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Latin America, Third World, United States, John Locke, John Dunn, New York, Middle East, Scottish Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, Clarendon Press, Ferguson's Essay, Huang Ko-wu, Polity Press, Hamish Hamilton, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Second Treatise, Sudipta Kaviraj, Charles Taylor, Ernest Gellner, Two Treatises New!
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Fugitive in its senses, the idea of civil society infiltrates all efforts to assess the possibilities and threats revealed by the glacial political shifts at the turn of the century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
condolence meeting, civil social institutions, collective human existence, societas civilis, legitimate political order, civil values, civil society, intellectual mainstream, ancient polis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Latin America, Third World, United States, John Locke, John Dunn, New York, Middle East, Scottish Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, Clarendon Press, Ferguson's Essay, Huang Ko-wu, Polity Press, Hamish Hamilton, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Second Treatise, Sudipta Kaviraj, Charles Taylor, Ernest Gellner, Two Treatises New!
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- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 15 pages
- Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Adam Ferguson on 4 pages
- Civil Society and Political Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Andrew Arato on 4 pages
- Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Charles de Montesquieu on page 66, page 71, and page 285
- Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (vol. 3) by Antonio Gramsci on page 139, page 142, and page 192
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- Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions by Jose Harris on 6 pages
- Civil Society (Themes for the 21st Century S.) by Michael Edwards on 5 pages
- The Future of Society (Blackwell Manifestos) by William Outhwaite in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Future of Society (Blackwell Manifestos) by William Outhwaite in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Civil Society and Democracy: A Reader (Themes in Politics Series) by Carolyn M. Elliott on page 9, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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