In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articul

This comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinki

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This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which sugg

"Provides a comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theory, as well as what the future may hold for how civil soc