This volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by ‘civil society’, paying particular attention to the relationships between civil society and other social forces such as nationalism and populism.
Table of Content
1. In Search of Civil Society: John A Hall.
2. The Importance of Being Modular: Ernest Gellner.
3. Civil Society in Communist China? Private Business and
Political Alliance, 1989: David Wank.
4. The Possibility of Civil Society: Traditions, Character and
Challenges: Victor Perez-Diaz.
5. The Nature of Social Ties and the Future of Postcommunist
Society: Poland after Solidarity: Wlodimierz Wesolowski.
6. Civic Nation, Civil Society, Civil Religion: Christopher
Bryant.
7. Philosophers’ Models on the Carpathian Lowlands: Christopher
Hann.
8. Post-Marxism, No Friend of Civil Society: Hudson
Meadwell.
9. Amimadversions upon Civil Society and Civic Virtue in the
Last Decade of the Twentieth Century: Adam Seligman.
10. Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society: Nicos
Mouzelis.
11. From Controlled Inclusion to Coerced Marginalization: the
Struggle for Civil Society in Latin America: Philip Oxhorn.
12. Civil Society and Islam: Serif Mardin.
13. Civil Society and its Future: Salvador Giner.
Index.
About the author
John A Hall is Emeritus James Mc Gill Professor of Sociology at Mc Gill University and the author of many books including Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Blackwell, 1985), Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market (Paladin, 1988), Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State (Polity, 1994) and International Orders:Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders (Polity, 1996).
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