Civil Society

Berlin Perspectives

By: John Keane (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 2006

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At the moment, no other city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin, which symbolizes modern urban life like hardly any other place. In the course of the past two centuries, its inhabitants have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over, from which it recently re-emerged with renewed vitality. This volume situates itself amidst 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 some of the key trends within actually existing civil societies.

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"The range and depth of this volume is impressive, as evidenced in Keane's excellent introduction, which extends from the philosophical foundations of civil society to its historical antecedents... By providing such a rich canvas of case studies and by illuminating the immanent tensions civil societies contend with, this book will become a standard reference for those interested in Europe and for scholars more generally engaged in state-society relations and the growing field of global studies." â¢ H-German

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Science & Theory Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Political Ideologies & Movements History Regional & National History European History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Introduction : cities and civil society	p. 1
Civil society in historical perspective	p. 37
Corporate responsibility and historical injustice	p. 51
The faces of social inequality	p. 71
Civil society : desperate wishful thinking?	p. 91
Transformations of German civil society : milieu change and community spirit	p. 103
Civility, violence and civil society	p. 139
Is there, or can there be, a 'European society'?	p. 169
Social movements challenging neoliberal globalization	p. 189
Entangled histories : civil society, caste solidarities and legal pluralism in post-colonial India	p. 213
The temptations of unfreedom : Erasmus intellectuals in the age of totalitarianism	p. 243
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