The Essential Civil Society Reader: Classic Essays in the American Civil Society DebateRowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 414 pages Around the world politicians and intellectuals seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ethics and social institutions. This text presents classic writings of leading scholars and organizers who have brought the civil society debate to the forefront. |
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Contents
The Meaning Origins and Applications of Civil Society | 3 |
The Quest for Community A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom | 33 |
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation | 51 |
The Good Society We Live through Our Institutions | 69 |
The Demoralization of Society Whats Wrong with the Civil Society | 95 |
Democracy on Trial The Role of Civil Society in Sustaining Democratic Values | 101 |
Communitarianism and the Moral Dimension | 123 |
To Empower People From State to Civil Society | 143 |
The Lost City The Case for Social Authority | 239 |
Trust The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity | 257 |
Democracys Discontent The Procedural Republic | 269 |
Rights Talk The Impoverishment of Political Discourse | 305 |
The Progressive Assault of Civic Community | 317 |
Individualism Liberalism and Democratic Civic Society | 353 |
American Exceptionalism Revisited The Role of Civil Society | 373 |
Politics Morality and Civility | 391 |
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