Title: Civil society : democratic perspectives /
Authors: Fine, Robert, 1945-; Rai, Shirin
Publisher: F. Cass,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Civil society.; Civil society History.
Contents: Understanding civil society : a preface / Robert Fine and Shirin Rai -- Civil society theory, enlightenment and critique / Robert Fine -- Civic or commercial? Adam Ferguson's concept of civil society / John Varty -- The politics of the division of labour : Smith and Hegel on civil society / Anastasia Ioannidou -- The emergence of the idea of civil society : the artificial political order and the natural social orders / Jack Lively and Andrew Reeve -- Market economy and democratic polity / David Beetham -- Bowling in the Bronx : the uncivil interstices between civil and political society / Laurence Whitehead -- Civil society or constitutional patriotism? / Charles Turner -- Myths from Eastern Europe and the legend of the West / Clive Tempest -- Learning to be a citizen : cognitive and ethical aspects of post-communist society transformation / Grazyna Skapska.