Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society
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Activism
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Benedict Ashley
Capitalism
Carole Pateman
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Christian tradition
Christianity
Citizenship
Civil society
Civility
Classical liberalism
Communitarianism
Confucianism
Contemporary society
Critical theory
Criticism
Daniel
Democracy
Doctrine
Editing
Egalitarianism
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Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
God
Ideology
Individualism
Institution
Islam
Jews
Joan Palevsky
Journal of Democracy
Judaism
Legislation
Liberal democracy
Liberalism
Liberty
Michael Walzer
Modernity
Morality
Multiculturalism
Philosophy
Political agenda
Political philosophy
Political system
Politics
Princeton University Press
Private sphere
Protestantism
Public sphere
Religion
Rights
Secularism
Self-ownership
Social criticism
Social liberalism
Social order
Social responsibility
Social theory
Society
State (polity)
State of nature
Subsidy
Toleration
Totalitarianism
Two Treatises of Government
Voluntary association
Welfare state
Will Kymlicka
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- ISBN 9780691087962
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Simone Chambers is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Reasonable Democracy. Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse, which won the American Political Science Association's Best First Book Award in Political Theory. Will Kymlicka is Queen's National Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Ontario. His books include, among others, Liberalism, Community, and Culture, Multicultural Citizenship, and Politics in the Vernacular.
