Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society

ISBN-13: 9780367543211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 482 str.

Steven M. Delue; Timothy M. Dale

Opis

This new edition of Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society presents a comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought that approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Importance of a Civil Society  Part 1: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions  2. Plato: Civic Virtue and the Just Society  3. Aristotle’s Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship 43  4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue  5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought  Part 2: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society  6. Niccolò Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society  7. Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society  8. Benedict Spinoza and Liberal Democracy  9. John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society  Part 3: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society  11. Immanuel Kant: Civil Society and International Order  12. G. W. F. Hegel: Civil Society and the State  13. Karl Marx and the Economic Argument about Civil Society  14. John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling  15. John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society  16. The Conservative View: Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Michael Oakeshott  Part 4: Critiques of Civil Society  17. The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault  18. Feminism, Gender Equality, and Civil Society  19. 21st Century Challenges for Civil Society: Culture, Religion, and Climate Change  20. Civil Society, Liberal Democracy, and Racial Injustice: A Political Theory Informed by the Black Experience in America