Civil society : a reader in history, theory and global politics

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Civil society : a reader in history, theory and global politics

edited by John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781403915429

Description

In the last two decades, civil society has re-emerged as a popular notion amongst academics and politicians alike. John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann provide the first critical selection of texts on the evolution of civil society as a seminal and hotly debated idea from the seventeenth century to the present. Combining European texts with global debates about civil society, including texts about Islam, China, and human rights, this critical edition is essential reading for students and academics in history, sociology, politics, and international relations as well as social activists interested in civil society today.

Table of Contents

  • Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Contests over Civil Society: Introductory Perspectives
  • J.A.Hall & F.Trentmann PART II: EMERGENT PROPERTIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY Civil Society as Political Society Civil Society as Political Society
  • R.Hooker Civil Society vs. the State of Nature
  • J.Locke Natural Societies Compared
  • G.W.Leibniz Toleration and its Limits Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
  • D.Hume Remedies for Sectarianism
  • A.Smith Freemasonry
  • G.Lessing Civil Society, Christianity, and State
  • Rev. Dr. T.B.Clarke Civility, Sociability and Associational Life Good Nature
  • J.Addison Gender and Public Life in the History of Civilisation
  • J.Millar The Threat of Effeminacy
  • The Female Tatler Self-Help and Regulation: A Women's Friendly Society
  • The Friends United Of Sympathy and of Self-Command
  • A.Smith The Craze of Clubs Ridiculed
  • Of the Farting Club Paradoxes of Commercial Life The Civilizing Force of Commerce
  • Montesquieu The Burden of Civilization
  • J.J.Rousseau The Social Benefits of Deception
  • A.Smith Civil Society,War, and Cosmopolitan Peace The Threat of Commerce to Republics
  • A.Ferguson The Commercial Sources of Military Power
  • E.Gibbon Cosmopolitan Vision
  • I.Kant PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MIDST OF MODERN IDEOLOGIES Radicalism vs. Conservatism Established Religion and Social Order
  • E.Burke Rights of Man
  • T.Paine Common Will
  • E-J.Sieyès Liberalism and Empire Public Functions of Associations
  • A.de Tocqueville The Dangers of Public Tranquility
  • A.de Tocqueville The Legacy of the Separation of Classes
  • A.de Tocqueville The 'Barbarous' and 'Anti-social' Passions of the Hindu
  • J.Mill Imperial Mission
  • A Village Missionary Meeting Bürgerliche Gesellschaft Corporation and Ethical Life
  • G.W.F.Hegel Split Consciousness
  • K.Marx Natural Hierarchies
  • H.von Treitschke Associational Practices: Moral Order, Popular Emancipation, and Escapism Reforming Others
  • The Girls' Friendly Society Cooperation and Emancipation
  • Mrs. Layton Sociability as Nostalgia
  • Schlaraffische Club (society ofmilk and honey) Organic Associationalism and the Critique of Liberalism Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
  • F.Tönnies The Purposes of Association
  • O.von Gierke Communal Life and the Limits of the State
  • J.N.Figgis Federalism
  • C.Cattaneo Guild Socialism
  • G.D.H.Cole Corporatism
  • E.Durkheim PART IV: UNDER ASSAULT
  • V.I.Lenin The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
  • C.Schmitt The Cult of the Member
  • K.Tucholsky Hegemony
  • A.Gramsci Socialist Nationalism
  • J.Goebbels The State as a Moral Project
  • V.M.Perez-Diaz The Liberal Threat to Self-Government
  • M.J.Sandel PART V: REVIVAL The Power of the Powerless
  • V.Havel The Pitfalls of Civil Society for Post-Communism
  • C.Hann The Myth of Human Self-Identity
  • L.Kolakowski A Setting of Settings
  • M.Walzer Maternal Voices
  • Madres de Plaza de Mayo Churches, Peace and Human Rights
  • G.Ruden The Decline of Social Visibility
  • P.Rosanvallon Deliberative Politics
  • J.Habermas PART VI: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES Communitarian Controversies The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
  • R.Putnam What If Civic Life Didn't Die?
  • M.Schudson Unravelling from Above
  • T.Skocpol Bursts of Civic Reconstruction
  • R.Putnam Ordering Civil Society
  • D.Blunkett Compelled Association
  • N.L.Rosenblum Associative Democracy
  • J.Cohen & J.Rogers Beyond Europe Civil Society and Public Sphere in China
  • D.Strand Hegemonic Ideas and Class in Chinese Associations
  • J.N. Wasserstrom & L.Xinyong The Inner and Public Practices of Qigong
  • N.N.Chen The Vitality of Islam
  • E.Gellner Religious, Ethnic, and Informal Associations
  • A.Varshney Pockets and Deficits of Civility in the Middle East
  • A.R.Norton Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
  • J.L.Comaroff & J.Comaroff Postcolonial Perspectives
  • P.Chatterjee Global Civil Society Global Civil Society?
  • J.Keane NonGovernmental Organizations in the United Nations
  • D.Otto Civicus
  • M.D.de Oliveira & R.Tandon Further Reading
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781403915436

Description

In the last two decades, civil society has re-emerged as a popular notion amongst academics and politicians alike. John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann provide the first critical selection of texts on the evolution of civil society as a seminal and hotly debated idea from the seventeenth century to the present. Combining European texts with global debates about civil society, including texts about Islam, China, and human rights, this critical edition is essential reading for students and academics in history, sociology, politics, and international relations as well as social activists interested in civil society today.

Table of Contents

  • Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Contests over Civil Society: Introductory Perspectives
  • J.A.Hall & F.Trentmann PART II: EMERGENT PROPERTIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY Civil Society as Political Society Civil Society as Political Society
  • R.Hooker Civil Society vs. the State of Nature
  • J.Locke Natural Societies Compared
  • G.W.Leibniz Toleration and its Limits Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
  • D.Hume Remedies for Sectarianism
  • A.Smith Freemasonry
  • G.Lessing Civil Society, Christianity, and State
  • Rev. Dr. T.B.Clarke Civility, Sociability and Associational Life Good Nature
  • J.Addison Gender and Public Life in the History of Civilisation
  • J.Millar The Threat of Effeminacy
  • The Female Tatler Self-Help and Regulation: A Women's Friendly Society
  • The Friends United Of Sympathy and of Self-Command
  • A.Smith The Craze of Clubs Ridiculed
  • Of the Farting Club Paradoxes of Commercial Life The Civilizing Force of Commerce
  • Montesquieu The Burden of Civilization
  • J.J.Rousseau The Social Benefits of Deception
  • A.Smith Civil Society,War, and Cosmopolitan Peace The Threat of Commerce to Republics
  • A.Ferguson The Commercial Sources of Military Power
  • E.Gibbon Cosmopolitan Vision
  • I.Kant PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MIDST OF MODERN IDEOLOGIES Radicalism vs. Conservatism Established Religion and Social Order
  • E.Burke Rights of Man
  • T.Paine Common Will
  • E-J.Sieyes Liberalism and Empire Public Functions of Associations
  • A.de Tocqueville The Dangers of Public Tranquility
  • A.de Tocqueville The Legacy of the Separation of Classes
  • A.de Tocqueville The 'Barbarous' and 'Anti-social' Passions of the Hindu
  • J.Mill Imperial Mission
  • A Village Missionary Meeting Burgerliche Gesellschaft Corporation and Ethical Life
  • G.W.F.Hegel Split Consciousness
  • K.Marx Natural Hierarchies
  • H.von Treitschke Associational Practices: Moral Order, Popular Emancipation, and Escapism Reforming Others
  • The Girls' Friendly Society Cooperation and Emancipation
  • Mrs. Layton Sociability as Nostalgia
  • Schlaraffische Club (society of milk and honey) Organic Associationalism and the Critique of Liberalism Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
  • F.Toennies The Purposes of Association
  • O.von Gierke Communal Life and the Limits of the State
  • J.N.Figgis Federalism
  • C.Cattaneo Guild Socialism
  • G.D.H.Cole Corporatism
  • E.Durkheim PART IV: UNDER ASSAULT
  • V.I.Lenin The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
  • C.Schmitt The Cult of the Member
  • K.Tucholsky Hegemony
  • A.Gramsci Socialist Nationalism
  • J.Goebbels The State as a Moral Project
  • V.M.Perez-Diaz The Liberal Threat to Self-Government
  • M.J.Sandel PART V: REVIVAL The Power of the Powerless
  • V.Havel The Pitfalls of Civil Society for Post-Communism
  • C.Hann The Myth of Human Self-Identity
  • L.Kolakowski A Setting of Settings
  • M.Walzer Maternal Voices
  • Madres de Plaza de Mayo Churches, Peace and Human Rights
  • G.Ruden The Decline of Social Visibility
  • P.Rosanvallon Deliberative Politics
  • J.Habermas PART VI: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES Communitarian Controversies The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
  • R.Putnam What If Civic Life Didn't Die?
  • M.Schudson Unravelling from Above
  • T.Skocpol Bursts of Civic Reconstruction
  • R.Putnam Ordering Civil Society
  • D.Blunkett Compelled Association
  • N.L.Rosenblum Associative Democracy
  • J.Cohen & J.Rogers Beyond Europe Civil Society and Public Sphere in China
  • D.Strand Hegemonic Ideas and Class in Chinese Associations
  • J.N. Wasserstrom & L.Xinyong The Inner and Public Practices of Qigong
  • N.N.Chen The Vitality of Islam
  • E.Gellner Religious, Ethnic, and Informal Associations
  • A.Varshney Pockets and Deficits of Civility in the Middle East
  • A.R.Norton Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
  • J.L.Comaroff & J.Comaroff Postcolonial Perspectives
  • P.Chatterjee Global Civil Society Global Civil Society?
  • J.Keane NonGovernmental Organizations in the United Nations
  • D.Otto Civicus
  • M.D.de Oliveira & R.Tandon Further Reading

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  • NCID
    BA70047476
  • ISBN
    • 1403915431
    • 1403915423
  • LCCN
    2004056071
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 308 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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