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Tester, Keith

 
9781138991347: Civil Society (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
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ISBN 10: 1138991341 ISBN 13: 9781138991347
Editorial: Routledge, 2016

Sinopsis

This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the world. The book identifies the origins of civil society in the work of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and the often forgotten philosophers of the Scottish Enlightnement. It shows how the assumptions of civil society, and the state of nature, fed into the sociological and philosophical discourses which emerged in the nineteenth century. The book does not ask ’What is civil society?’; instead it asks ’Why is civil society?’ The author concludes that through civil society, the protagonists and heirs of European modernity struggled to make their world meaningful and safe. Civil society involved the establishment of boundaries between the community of the social and the terrifying milieu of Nature.

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Keith Tester

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138991341
ISBN 13 
9781138991347
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
196
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Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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ISBN 10:  1138782270 ISBN 13:  9781138782273
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