Toward a Global Civil Society [Paperback]

M Walzer (Editor), Terry Nardin (Author), Jean Nielsen (Author), Jean Cohen (Author), Michael Walzer (Author), Philip Selznick (Author), Terry Pinkard (Author), William Galston (Author), Amitai Etzioni (Author), Jean Elshtain (Author), Otto Kallscheuer (Author), Tracy B. Strong Strong (Author), Ottokar Hahn (Author), Jeff Faux (Author), Elmar Altvater (Author), Johano Strasser (Author), William Sullivan (Author), Mitchell Cohen (Author), Peter Glotz (Author), Eric Hobsbawm (Author), Alan Wolfe (Author), Chantal Mouffe (Author), Milos Hajek (Author), Didier Motchane (Author), Julian Santamaria Ossorio (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1997

The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic systems has begun. This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars of political theory from Europe and the United States explores both the concept and the reality of civil society and its institutions. From the Contents: The Concept of Civil Society - The Communitarian Approach - Economic Policy and Social Justice - The Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration and Minority Conflict - European Socialism and American SocialReform. Contributors: M. Walzer, T. Nardin, J. Cohen, K. Nielsen, T. Strong, J. Elshtain, A. Etzioni, W.Galston, T. Pinkard, P. Selznick, O. Kallscheuer, E. Altvater, J. Faux, O. Hahn, J. Strasser, G.Frankenberg, W. Sullivan, P. Glotz, M. Cohen, E. Hobsbawm, A. Wolfe, M. Hajek, N.Birnbaum, C. Mouffe, D. Motchane, J. Santamaria. Michael Walzer has been a permanent faculty member at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1980. He is an editor of Dissent and a contributing editor of The New Republic, and has published among numerous works The Company of Critics (1988) and Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987).

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Michael Walzer has been a permanent faculty member at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1980. He is an editor of Dissent and a contributing editor of The New Republic, and has published among numerous works The Company of Critics (1988) and Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987).

Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Berghahn Books; New edition edition (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571811389
• ISBN-13: 978-1571811387
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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