The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic systems has begun. This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars of political theory from Europe and the United States explores both the concept and the reality of civil society and its institutions. Michael Walzer has been a permanent faculty member at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1980. He is an editor of Dissent and a contributing editor of The New Republic, and has published among numerous works The Company of Critics (1988) and Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987).

Foreword

ix

Dieter Dettke

Introduction

1

(6)

Michael Walzer

I The Concept of Civil Society

The Concept of Civil Society

7

(22)

Michael Walzer

Private and Public Roles in Civil Society

29

(6)

Terry Nardin

Interpreting the Notion of Civil Society

35

(6)

Jean Cohen

Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings

41

(28)

Kai Nielsen

Civil Society, Hard Cases, and the End of the Cold War

69

(8)

Tracy B. Strong

II The Communitarian Approach

In Common Together: Unity, Diversity and Civic Virtue

77

(22)

Jean Elshtain

Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities

99

(8)

Amitai Etzioni

Progressive Politics and Communitarian Culture

107

(6)

William Galston

Neo-Hegelian Reflections on the Communitarian Debate

113

(14)

Terry Pinkard

From Socialism to Communitarianism

127

(6)

Philip Selznick

On Labels and Reason: The Communitarian Approach---Some European Comments

133

(16)

Otto Kallscheuer

III Economic Policy and Social Justice

The Invisible, the Visible and the Third Hand

149

(10)

Elmar Altvater

Industrial Policy---Will Clinton Find the High Wage Path?

159

(14)

Jeff Faux

Redefining the Role of the State To Facilitate Reform in East and West

173

(6)

Ottokar Hahn

Between Social Darwinism and the Overprotective State---Some Reflections on a Modern Concept of Social Welfare Policy

179

(16)

Johano Strasser

Civil Society and Social Justice

195

(6)

Gunter Frankenberg

American Social Reform and a New Kind of Modernity

201

(10)

William Sullivan

IV The Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration, and Minority Conflict

East European Reform and West European Integration

211

(12)

Peter Glotz

Rooted Cosmopolitanism

223

(12)

Mitchell Cohen

Ethnicity, Migration, and the Validity of the Nation-State

235

(6)

Eric Hobsbawm

Neither Politics Nor Economics

241

(10)

Alan Wolfe

The Left in the Process of Democratization in Central and Eastern European Countries

251

(10)

Milos Hajek

V European Socialism and American Social Reform

After the Disappointment of the Epoch: American Social Tradition between Past and Future

261

(34)

Norman Birnbaum

Pluralism and the Left Identity

295

(6)

Chantal Mouffe

What's Left after Socialism

301

(6)

Didier Motchane

Broadening the Concept of Democracy

307

(10)

Julian Santamaria Ossorio

Notes on Contributors

317

(8)

Index

325

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