The civil sphere /
Societies are not governed only by power and self-interest. What then does make societies function? How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? This work addresses this central paradox of modern life.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Possibilities of justice
- Real civil societies : dilemmas of institutionalization
- Bringing democracy back in : realism, morality, solidarity
- Discourses : liberty and repression
- Communicative institutions : public opinion, mass media, polls, associations
- Regulative institutions (1) : voting, parties, office
- Regulative institutions (2) : the civil force of law
- Contradictions : uncivilizing pressures and civil repair
- Social movements as civil translations
- Gender and civil repair : the long and winding road through m/otherhood
- Race and civil repair (1) : duality and the creation of a black civil society
- Race and civil repair (2) : the civil rights movement and communicative solidarity
- Race and civil repair (3) : civil trauma and the tightening spiral of communication and regulation
- Race and civil repair (4) : regulatory reform and ritualization
- Integration between difference and solidarity
- Encounters with the other
- The three pathways to incorporation
- The Jewish question : anti-semitism and the failure of assimilation
- Answering the Jewish question in America : before and after the Holocaust
- Conclusion : civil society as a project.