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This review is from: The Essential Civil Society Reader: The Classic Essays (Paperback)
If you're like me, "classical" indicates the founding thinkers and documents--the stuff that the rest is built upon. In that sense, this book of readings does NOT contain the classic essays in civil society. The "classic" essays concerning the idea of civil society ought to at least go back to Locke, Smith, Rousseau, Hegel, and Tocqueville. The reader of this book will find none of that here. Almost everybody in the book is still living. Not that death is a necessary condition of being classic, but it's hard to imagine someone still alive who responded to or debated with Tocqueville. This book is a fair overview of some of the more important *contemporary* thinkers, such as Robert Nisbet, Robert Bellah, and Daniel Bell.
Of course my fault was in not looking over the table of contents before ordering the book. But who would have thought that "buyer beware" would be important in purchasing a book on civil society? |
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The Essential Civil Society Reader: The Classic Essays by Don E. Eberly (Paperback - July 5, 2000)
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