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Informationen zum Autor John Keane is founder of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). Born in Australia and educated at the universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, he is a frequent contributor to media around the world. He is the author of Global Civil Society? (2003) and Violence and Democracy (2004) and is currently preparing a full-scale history of democracy - the first for over a century. Klappentext At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting, for the first time in English, a sample of the best, recently written essays on contemporary civil societies, their structural problems, and their uncertain future, written by scholars with a close, long-standing relationship with the city. They are pre-occupied with a broad sweep of substantive themes, but in each case they focus upon one or other of the key trends that are shaping actually existing civil societies. Zusammenfassung Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting essays on contemporary civil societies, and their structural problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors’ Preface Dieter Gosewinkel and Jürgen Kocka Introduction: Cities and Civil Society John Keane Chapter 1. Civil Society in Historical Perspective Jürgen Kocka Chapter 2. Corporate Responsibility and Historical Injustice Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis Chapter 3. The Faces of Social Inequality Paul Nolte Chapter 4. Civil Society: Desperate Wishful Thinking? Herfried Münkler Chapter 5. Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit Hans Joas and Frank Adloff Chapter 6. Civility, Violence and Civil Society Sven Reichardt Chapter 7. Is There, or Can There Be, a ‘European Society’? Claus Offe Chapter 8. Social Movements Challenging Neoliberal Globalization Dieter Rucht Chapter 9. Entangled Histories: Civil Society, Caste Solidarities and Legal Pluralism in Post-colonial India Shalini Randeria Chapter 10. The Temptations of Unfreedom: Erasmus Intellectuals in the Age of Totalitarianism Ralf Dahrendorf Notes on Contributors Index ...
