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BARBER, BENJAMIN

 
9780809076567: PLACE FOR US: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
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ISBN 10: 080907656X ISBN 13: 9780809076567
Editorial: Hill and Wang, 2003

Sinopsis

A Place for Us

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Reseña del editor

In our crowded, noisy world—too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time—it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy?

In this provocative, hard-hitting book, political scientist Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them.

Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for affirming values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.

Biografía del autor

Internationally renowned political theorist Benjamin R. Barber is the Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos in New York City, where he lives.

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Editorial
Hill and Wang
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
080907656X
ISBN 13 
9780809076567
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
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