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Zusatztext This superb new volume of essays reminds us that social solidarities and popular participation are aspirational goals, not settled accomplishments, and have the potential for moral inclusiveness only in a third autonomous sphere of civil society. A consequential set of reflections on an enormously consequential work of original social theory that will serve as a touchstone of critical theory for the foreseeable future. Informationen zum Autor Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College and was formerly the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Turku, Finland.Giuseppe Sciortino is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology. Klappentext This book re-engages with Jeffrey C. Alexander's work on civil society. The editors, Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino, locate Alexander's civil sphere thesis in terms of his larger theoretical project in the introduction and what follows are contributions from six internationally recognized scholars offering their insights into the impact of this work. Zusammenfassung This book re-engages with Jeffrey C. Alexander's work on civil society. The editors, Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino, locate Alexander's civil sphere thesis in terms of his larger theoretical project in the introduction and what follows are contributions from six internationally recognized scholars offering their insights into the impact of this work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Introduction: Thinking Through the Civil Sphere, Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino Chapter 1: Religiong and the Civil Sphere: A Global Perspective, Robert Bellah Chapter 2: Civil Sphere and Political Performance: Critical Reflections on Jeffrey C. Alexander's Cultural Sociology, Bryan S. Turner Chapter 3: Civil Society as a Democratic Battlefield: Comments on Jeffrey C. Alexander's The Civil Sphere, Axel Honneth Chapter 4: Social Movements, Civil Repair, and Social Movement Theory, Mario Diani Chapter 5: The Jewish Question and the Civil Sphere, Chad Alan Goldberg Chapter 6: The Civil Sphere and the Arab Spring: On the Universality of Civil Society, Farhad Khosrokhavar Chapter 7: Nine Theses on the Civil Sphere, Jeffrey C. Alexander Notes Index ...
