Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

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"Civil Society" has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers during the last two decades. This collection of original papers by junior and senior scholars offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical roots of civil society in Germany and Britain from the seventeenth-century revolutions to the beginning of the welfare state. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface to the Revised Second Edition Acknowledgments Preface to the First Edition Part I. Introductory Perspectives Introduction Chapter 1. Reflections on the Making of Civility in Society Part II. Conceptual Origins Chapter 2. "The Commerce of the Sexes" Chapter 3. Kant, Smith, and Hegel Chapter 4. Immanuel Kant's Two Theories of Civil Society Part III. Associational Life and the Education of Citizens Chapter 5. The Intelligence Gazette (Intelligenzblatt) as a Road Map to Civil Society Chapter 6. Club Culture and Social Authority Chapter 7. Energy, Willpower, and Harmony Part IV. The Limits of Inclusion Chapter 8. Civic Culture, Women's Foreign Missions, and the British Imperial Imagination, 1860 - 1914 Chapter 9. The Village Goes Public Chapter 10. Religion and Civil Society Chapter 11. Prostitutes, Civil Society, and the State in Weimar Germany Part V. Political Culture and Social Citizenship Chapter 12. Oligarchs, Liberals, and Mittelstand Chapter 13. Civil Society, Commerce, and the "Citizen-Consumer" Chapter 14. Socialism, Civil Society, and the State in Modern Britain Chapter 15. Civil Society in the Aftermath of the Great War Contributors Select Bibliography Index Пустая страница Пустая страница