Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives

Published by Berghahn Books 2006

Civil Society

Berlin Perspectives

Edited by: John Keane

Volume 2 in the series Studies on Civil Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857456984

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About this book

At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting, for the first time in English, a sample of the best, recently written essays on contemporary civil societies, their structural problems, and their uncertain future, written by scholars with a close, long-standing relationship with the city. They are pre-occupied with a broad sweep of substantive themes, but in each case they focus upon one or other of the key trends that are shaping actually existing civil societies.

Author / Editor information

John Keane is founder of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). Born in Australia and educated at the universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, he is a frequent contributor to media around the world. He is the author of Global Civil Society? (2003) and Violence and Democracy (2004) and is currently preparing a full-scale history of democracy - the first for over a century.

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“The range and depth of this volume is impressive, as evidenced in Keane's excellent introduction, which extends from the philosophical foundations of civil society to its historical antecedents… By providing such a rich canvas of case studies and by illuminating the immanent tensions civil societies contend with, this book will become a standard reference for those interested in Europe and for scholars more generally engaged in state-society relations and the growing field of global studies.” • H-German

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors’ Preface Dieter Gosewinkel and Jürgen Kocka Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Cities and Civil Society John Keane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Civil Society in Historical Perspective Jürgen Kocka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 2 Corporate Responsibility and Historical Injustice Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 3 The Faces of Social Inequality Paul Nolte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 4 Civil Society: Desperate Wishful Thinking? Herfried Münkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 5 Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit Hans Joas and Frank Adloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 6 Civility, Violence and Civil Society Sven Reichardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 7 Is There, or Can There Be, a ‘European Society’? Claus Offe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 8 Social Movements Challenging Neoliberal Globalization Dieter Rucht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 9 Entangled Histories: Civil Society, Caste Solidarities and Legal Pluralism in Post-colonial India Shalini Randeria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 10 The Temptations of Unfreedom: Erasmus Intellectuals in the Age of Totalitarianism Ralf Dahrendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 276
Keywords: Cultural Studies (General); Urban Studies

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Published: August 1, 2006
ISBN: 9780857456984