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A comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought that approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills. This text is uniquely organized around the theme of civil society — what is the nature of a civil society? why is it important? — that will engage students and help make the material relevant. Major thinkers discussed in the text are explored not only with the goal of understanding their views, but also with an interest in understanding the relationship of their ideas to the notion of a civil society. DeLue contends that a civil society is important for securing the way of life that most of us value and want to preserve, a way of life that allows people to live freely and place significance on their own lives.
Contents
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Importance of a Civil Society Part I: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions Chapter 2: Plato: Civic Virtue And the Just Society Chapter 3: Aristotle's Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship Chapter 4: Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue Chapter 5: Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought Part II: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society Chapter 6: Niccolò Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society Chapter 7: Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society Chapter 8: Spinoza and Liberal Democracy Chapter 9: John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority Chapter 10: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society Part III: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society Chapter 11: Kant: Civil Society and International Order Chapter 12: Hegel: Civil Society and the State Chapter 13: Marx and the Economic Argument About Civil Society Chapter 14: John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling Chapter 15: John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society Chapter 16: The Conservative View: Burke, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott Part IV: Critiques of Civil Society Chapter 17: The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche's and Michel Foucault Chapter 18: Feminist Responses to Civil Society Chapter 19: Multiculturalism and the Challenges of a Global Civil Society Chapter 20: Conclusion: Civil Society and Civic Renewal