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Index
PREFACE
The Structure of This Book
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Debates in Contemporary Political Theory
Elite Vs. Participatory Democracy
Rights--Oriented Liberalism Vs. Communitarianism
The Defense of Welfare State Vs. Neoconservative Antistatism
Revival of the Concept of Civil Society
Civil Society and Contemporary Political Theory
I. THE DISCOURSE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
1. The Contemporary Revival of Civil Society
The Polish Democratic Opposition
The Ideology of the "Second Left" in France
A Theory for the West German Greens
Civil Society in the Transition from Latin American Dictatorships
Revisiting Eastern Europe in the Late 1980s
Some Comparisons and Some Problems
2. Conceptual History and Theoretical Synthesis
A Sketch of Early Modern Conceptual History
Hegel's Synthesis
Integration Through the State
Social Integration Through Civil Society
3. Theoretical Development in the Twentieth Century
Parsons: Civil Society between Tradition and Modernity
Gramsci and the Idea of Socialist Civil Society
Excursus on Gramsci's Successors: Althusser, Anderson, and Bobbio
II. THE DISCONTENTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY
4. The Normative Critique: Hannah Arendt
5. The Historicist Critique: Carl Schmitt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Jürgen Habermas
The Origins of the Liberal Public Sphere: Carl Schmitt and Reinhart Koselleck
From a Literary to a Political Public Sphere: Jürgen Habermas
The Fusion of Civil Society and State: Carl Schmitt
The Fusion Argument in Habermas's Strukturwandel
6. The Genealogical Critique: Michel Foucault
Marx, Generalized
The Genealogy of Modern Civil Society
The Philosophical and Normative Ambiguities of Genealogy
The Genealogical Account of Modernization
The Negativity of Civil Society and the Loss of the Social
7. The Systems-Theoretic Critique: Niklas Luhmann
III. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY
8. Discourse Ethics and Civil Society
The Object Domain of Discourse Ethics
The Charge of Authoritarianism
Discourse Ethics and the Good Life
Excessive Formalism
Universality?
Motivation
An Institutional Deficit?
Discourse Ethics and Civil Society
9. Social Theory and Civil Society
Reconstructing Civil Society
Civil Society, Lifeworld, and the Differentiation of Society
Beyond Traditional Civil Society
The Negative Dimensions of Civil Society
The Utopia of Civil Society
The Institutional Two-Dimensionality of Existing Civil Society
The Politics of Civil Society
Critique of the Welfare State
Reflexive Continuation of the Welfare State and Liberal Democracy
Defense of the Lifeworld
Dualistic Solutions?
The Return of Mediations
Reflexive Law and Postregulatory Regulation
Another Glance to the East
10. Social Movements and Civil Society
New Theoretical Paradigms and Contemporary Social Movements
The Resource-Mobilization Paradigm
The New Social Movements Paradigm
Dualistic Social Theory and Contemporary Social Movements
A Feminist Critique of Dualistic Social Theory
Dual Politics: The Example of the Feminist Movement
Civil Society and Dual Politics: A Theoretical Summary
11. Civil Disobedience and Civil Society
Contemporary Liberal-Democratic Theory and Civil Disobedience
Democratic Theory and Civil Disobedience
NOTES
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
INDEX
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