At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting, for the first time in English, a sample of the best, recently written essays on contemporary civil societies, their structural problems, and their uncertain future, written by scholars with a close, long-standing relationship with the city. They are pre-occupied with a broad sweep of substantive themes, but in each case they focus upon one or other of the key trends that are shaping actually existing civil societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-09-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on Civil Society
Antal sidor276
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845453572

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John Keane is founder of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). Born in Australia and educated at the universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, he is a frequent contributor to media around the world. He is the author of Global Civil Society? (2003) and Violence and Democracy (2004) and is currently preparing a full-scale history of democracy - the first for over a century.

Editors’ PrefaceDieter Gosewinkel and Jürgen KockaIntroduction: Cities and Civil SocietyJohn KeaneChapter 1. Civil Society in Historical PerspectiveJürgen KockaChapter 2. Corporate Responsibility and Historical InjusticeSusanne-Sophia SpiliotisChapter 3. The Faces of Social InequalityPaul NolteChapter 4. Civil Society: Desperate Wishful Thinking?Herfried MünklerChapter 5. Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community SpiritHans Joas and Frank AdloffChapter 6. Civility, Violence and Civil SocietySven ReichardtChapter 7. Is There, or Can There Be, a ‘European Society’?Claus OffeChapter 8. Social Movements Challenging Neoliberal GlobalizationDieter RuchtChapter 9. Entangled Histories: Civil Society, Caste Solidarities and Legal Pluralism in Post-colonial IndiaShalini RanderiaChapter 10. The Temptations of Unfreedom: Erasmus Intellectuals in the Age of TotalitarianismRalf DahrendorfNotes on ContributorsIndex

“The range and depth of this volume is impressive, as evidenced in Keane's excellent introduction, which extends from the philosophical foundations of civil society to its historical antecedents… By providing such a rich canvas of case studies and by illuminating the immanent tensions civil societies contend with, this book will become a standard reference for those interested in Europe and for scholars more generally engaged in state-society relations and the growing field of global studies.” • H-German