Languages of Civil Society

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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The past two decades have witnessed a revival of the concept of ‘civil society’. From East Central Europe to Latin America and East Asia to the recent calls for a ‘European civil society’ and a ‘global civil society’, the concept signifies the need for national and supra–national forms of civic commitment against both unjustified state domination and neo–liberal marketization. Reviewing the long history of the concept, its use in various regional contexts and its place in critical political theory, this book takes comprehensive stock of these debates and asks about the potential of the concept of civil society in guiding political transformations towards fuller understandings of liberty and democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on Civil Society
Antal sidor264
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845451196

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Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. His publications in social and political philosophy and historical and political sociology include A Sociology of Modernity (1994), Theorizing Modernity (2001), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences (2001), and The Political Constitution of Modern Capitalism (co–editor, forthcoming 2005).

IntroductionPeter WagnerPART I: BEGINNINGSChapter 1. Civil Society and the Problématique of Political ModernityJean Terrier and Peter WagnerChapter 2. From koinonìa politikè to societas civilis: Birth, Disappearance and First Renaissance of the ConceptPeter Hallberg and Björn WittrockPART II: NARROWINGChapter 3. The Nationalisation and Popularisation of Political Language: the Concept of ‘Civil Society’ in SwedishPeter Hallberg Chapter 4. Declining Deliberation: Civil Society, Community, Organised ModernityJean Terrier and Peter WagnerChapter 5. The Withering Away of ‘Civil Society’ and the Organization of Social Life: the Case of Germany from the Wilhelminian era to the G.D.R.Jay Rowell and Bénédicte ZimmermannPART III: WIDENINGChapter 6. The Second Renaissance of Civil Society in East and Central Europe – and in the European UnionJody Jensen and Ferenc MiszlivetzChapter 7. Pluralized Globalisation: Civil Society in East Asia and Latin AmericaShin Jong-Hwa and Peter WagnerChapter 8. Global Civil Society: from Dissident Democratisation to World Bank ParlanceJody Jensen and Ferenc MiszlivetzChapter 9. The Critique of Organised ModernityJean Terrier and Peter WagnerPART IV: CONCLUDINGChapter 10. The Return of Civil Society and the Reopening of the Political ProblématiqueJean Terrier and Peter WagnerBibliographyIndex