Civil Society - History and Possibilities

Civil Society - History and Possibilities

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Author: Sudipta Kaviraj
Sunil Khilnani/
Editor(s): Sudipta Kaviraj / Sunil Khilnani
Publisher: Cambridge University press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 330
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175961082

Description

Civil society is one of the most used - and abused - concepts in current political thinking. In this important collection of essays, the concept is subjected to rigorous analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the historical and comparative understanding of political thought. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyses the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of Western philosophy.

In the second section, contributors consider the theoretical and practical contexts in which the notion of civil society has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These essays demonstrate how an influential Western idea like civil society is itself altered and innovatively modified by the specific contexts of intellectual and practical life in the societies of the South.

REVIEW

This collection is unusually coherent in plan and consistent in quality. The editors have assembled an excellent group of authors.
-The Times Higher Education Supplement

Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION
Ideas of civil society

PART I - THEORETICAL TRADITIONS IN THE WEST

The development of civil society
SUNIL KHILNANI

Concepts of civil society in pre-modern Europe
ANTHONY BLACK

The contemporary political significance of John Locke’s conception of civil society
JOHN DUNN

Civil society in the Scottish Enlightenment
FANIA OZ SALZBERGER

Enlightenment and the institution of society: notes for a conceptual history
KEITH MICHAEL BAKER

Hegel and the economics of civil society
GARETH STEDMAN JONES

Civil society in the Marxist tradition
JOSEPH FEMIA

PART II - ARGUMENTS IN THE SOUTH

Civil society in extra-European perspective
JACK GOODY

On civil and political societies in post-colonial democracies
PARTHA CHATTERJEE

Civil society and the fate of the modern Republic in Latin America
LUIS CASTRO LEIVA AND ANTHONY PAGDEN

The Western concept of civil society in the context of Chinese history
THOMAS METZGER

Civil society, community and democracy in the Middle East
SAMI ZUBAIDA

Mistaking governance for politics: foreign aid, democracy and the construction of civil society
ROB JENKINS

The promise of civil society in the South
GEOFFREY HAWTHORN

In search of civil society
SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ

INDEX