The Necessity of Politics - Reclaiming American Public Life

ForewordJean Bethke ElshtainAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Concept of Civil Society1. The Concept of Civil Society and the Contemporary Predicament2. The Concept of Civil Society and the Modern ProblematicPart 2: The Progenitors of Civil Society3. The Tocquevillian Tradition4. The Tocquevillian Legacy5. Hegelian Tradition6. Civil Society in the Polish Solidarity Movement7. The Product of Two TraditionsPart 3: The Insufficiency of Civil Society8. Tocqueville, Hegel, and the Sufficiency of Civil Society9. The Contemporary Concept and the Question of SufficiencyPart 4: The Necessity of Politics10. Medium Party Political Associations11. Government and the Construction of the Moral Society12. The American State as a Moral ActorNotesIndex

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Summary

This text responds to the idea that American civic institutions are hard pressed, and growing cynical and disconnected from one another. It argues that restoring local institutions will not solve the problem; a civil society needs politics/government to provide a sense of shared values and ideas.

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• Authors: Christopher Beem, Christopher Been
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780226041469
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04146-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Series: Morality and Society (Paperbac; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society Series (CHUP)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas