Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
ISBN:
9780857456984
,
0857456989
Serie:
Studies on Civil Society
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Civil Society; CONTENTS; EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: CITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER 1. CIVIL SOCIETY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; CHAPTER 2. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND HISTORICAL INJUSTICE; CHAPTER 3. THE FACES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY; CHAPTER 4. CIVIL SOCIETY: DESPERATE WISHFUL THINKING?; CHAPTER 5. TRANSFORMATIONS OF GERMAN CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER 6. CIVILITY, VIOLENCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER 7. IS THERE, OR CAN THERE BE, A 'EUROPEAN SOCIETY'?; CHAPTER 8. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CHALLENGING NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION; CHAPTER 9. ENTANGLED HISTORIES; CHAPTER 10. THE TEMPTATIONS OF UNFREEDOM.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781845453572
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781845453572
Sprache:
Englisch
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