Toward a Global Civil Society

✍ Scribed by Michael Walzer (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: International Political Currents; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic systems has begun. This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars of political theory from Europe and the United States explores both the concept and the reality of civil society and its institutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
I The Concept of Civil Society
1. The Concept of Civil Society
2. Private and Public Roles in Civil Society
3. Interpreting the Notion of Civil Society
4. Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings
5. Civil Society, Hard Cases and the End of the Cold War
II The Communitarian Approach
6. In Common Together: Unity, Diversity, and Civic Virtue
7. Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities
8. Progressive Politics and Communitarian Culture
9. Neo-Hegelian Reflections on the Communitarian Debate
10. From Socialism to Communitarianism
11. On Labels and Reasons: The Communitarian Approach–Some European Comments
III Economic Policy and Social Justice
12. Economic Policy and the Role of the State— The Invisible, the Visible and the Third Hand
13. Industrial Policy—Will Clinton Find the High Wage Path?
14. Redefining the Role of the State to Facilitate Reform in East and West
15. Between Social Darwinism and the Overprotective State — Some Reflections on a Modern Concept of Social Welfare Policy
16. Civil Society and Social Justice
17. American Social Reform and a New Kind of Modernity
IV The Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration, and Minority Conflict
18. East European Reform and West European Integration
19. Rooted Cosmopolitanism
20. Ethnicity, Migration, and the Validity of the Nation-State
21. Neither Politics Nor Economics
22. The Left in the Process of Democratization in Central and Eastern European Countries
V European Socialism and American Social Reform
23. After the Disappointment of the Epoch: American Social Tradition between Past and Future
24. Pluralism and the Left Identity
25. What’s Left After Socialism
26. Some Reflections on the New World Order and Disorder
Notes on Contributors
Index