Toward a Global Civil Society / / ed. by Michael Walzer.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1995] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 1995 |
Language: | English |
Series: | International Political Currents ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I The Concept of Civil Society
- 1. The Concept of Civil Society
- 2. Private and Public Roles in Civil Society
- 3. Interpreting the Notion of Civil Society
- 4. Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings
- 5. Civil Society, Hard Cases and the End of the Cold War
- II The Communitarian Approach
- 6. In Common Together: Unity, Diversity, and Civic Virtue
- 7. Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities
- 8. Progressive Politics and Communitarian Culture
- 9. Neo-Hegelian Reflections on the Communitarian Debate
- 10. From Socialism to Communitarianism
- 11. On Labels and Reasons: The Communitarian Approach–Some European Comments
- III Economic Policy and Social Justice
- 12. Economic Policy and the Role of the State— The Invisible, the Visible and the Third Hand
- 13. Industrial Policy—Will Clinton Find the High Wage Path?
- 14. Redefining the Role of the State to Facilitate Reform in East and West
- 15. Between Social Darwinism and the Overprotective State — Some Reflections on a Modern Concept of Social Welfare Policy
- 16. Civil Society and Social Justice
- 17. American Social Reform and a New Kind of Modernity
- IV The Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration, and Minority Conflict
- 18. East European Reform and West European Integration
- 19. Rooted Cosmopolitanism
- 20. Ethnicity, Migration, and the Validity of the Nation-State
- 21. Neither Politics Nor Economics
- 22. The Left in the Process of Democratization in Central and Eastern European Countries
- V European Socialism and American Social Reform
- 23. After the Disappointment of the Epoch: American Social Tradition between Past and Future
- 24. Pluralism and the Left Identity
- 25. What’s Left After Socialism
- 26. Some Reflections on the New World Order and Disorder
- Notes on Contributors
- Index