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Civil society

Title: Civil society / Michael Edwards.
Author: Edwards, Michael, 1957-
Publication: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2009.

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Description

x, 171 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Is civil society the big idea for the 21st century? Or will the idea prove another false horizon in the search for a better world? By illuminating the uses and abuses of different theories and traditions, this book should help readers of all persuasions to answer this question for themselves.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : what's the big idea? -- 2. Civil society as associational life -- 3. Civil society as the good society -- 4. Civil society as the public sphere -- 5. Synthesis : unraveling the civil society puzzle -- 6. So what's to be done?

ISBN

9780745645858
0745645852
9780745645865
0745645860
0745675433
9780745675435

LCCN

2009499776

OCLC

ocn317920344
317920344
SCSB-1523813

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Princeton University Library