Political thinking, political theory, and civil society / Steven M. DeLue.
- 2nd ed.
- xiii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The Importance of a Civil Society -- Plato: Civic Virtue and the Just Society -- Aristotle's Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship -- Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue -- Niccolo Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society -- Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society -- John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society -- Kant: Civil Society and International Order -- Hegel: Civil Society and the State -- John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling -- John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society -- The Conservative View: Burke, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott -- The Marxist Critique of Civil Society -- Friedrich Nietzsche's Critique of Civil Society -- Feminist Responses to Civil Society -- Civil Society Revisited -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.