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Civil Society

A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. F. Trentmann
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Keywords

  • communism
  • democracy
  • Europe
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • human rights
  • Ideologie
  • international relations
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • John Locke
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Karl Marx
  • policy
  • politics
  • Rousseau
  • socialism

About this book

In the last two decades, civil society has re-emerged as a popular notion amongst academics and politicians alike. John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann provide the first critical selection of texts on the evolution of civil society as a seminal and hotly debated idea from the seventeenth century to the present. Combining European texts with global debates about civil society, including texts about Islam, China, and human rights, this critical edition is essential reading for students and academics in history, sociology, politics, and international relations as well as social activists interested in civil society today.

Reviews

'Frank Trentmann and John Hall rescue the concept of civil society from hazy approbration and lazy usage. By inserting contestation, complexity and change into the past and present of the concept, in theory and in practice, in west and the rest, their selection of texts is an indispensable starting point for thinking about civil society.' - Professor Martin Daunton, Master of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

'The editors wear their erudition lightly, but their masterful editing of over seventy contributors creates a vibrant conversation. The volume succeeds because of their wisdom and intellectual creativity.' - Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USA

About the authors

JOHN A. HALL is Dean of Arts and James McGill Professor of Sociology at McGill University Montreal. His books include Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison (editor), Power and Liberties, and Is America Breaking Apart? (with Charles Lindholm).

FRANK TRENTMANN is Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Director of the Cultures of Consumption Programme. His publications include Paradoxes of Civil Society (editor) and Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (co-editor with Mark Bevir).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Civil Society

  • Book Subtitle: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics

  • Editors: F. Trentmann

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1542-9Due: 10 December 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1543-6Published: 29 November 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 308

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