There is an ambiguity in the idea of "civil society" as the arena of private economic and social relations, rather than of government. First, there is the idea that these relations are freel
...r utopian thought and meaningful political projects are conceivable at all. Or are the great mobilizing idea ls embedded in the earlier utopias consigned to the dustbin of the history of idea s? The id...
...contrary, notwithstanding), as having abandoned historical materialism for a kind of Crocean historical idea lism. He did take the state, civil society, and the economy to be distinct elements in the s...
...sary to the notion of civil society and the preservation of which is necessary if we want to retain any idea or viable idea of society? How do we retain both the "I" and the "we" i...
... classical republican precedents, the Federalists and anti-Federalists struggled with a general fund of idea s, a repertoire of stock concerns and understandings, much as contemporary interlocutors do....
... patterns of conduct and different principles of legitimation. I would like to suggest that this set of idea s be combined with idea s articulated a few years earlier by Daniel Bell in his work, The Cul...
I will offer some very general reflections on why certain communitarian idea s have been raised in the national debate and why the communitarian agenda on its own cannot be the full story of what we sh
... socialists. However, by the time I returned from service in the army in 1946, I was convinced that the idea of socialism, at least for the United States, was no longer something I could really suppor...
Is there a common idea of the "left" in Europe and the United States? And should this idea be a "communitarian" one? Or is this "just another label"--as many people (espe
... its short-term horizons--will not make the necessary investments to keep that sector prosperous. This idea challenges the notion that has dominated U.S. national economic policy since the end of Wor...
...you can hardly find anyone nowadays in Europe to defend socialism at all. Socialism is considered as an idea l only for dreamers, bureaucrats, and lazy men. Capitalism has become, in the general impres...
...ore room for independent and self-determined activity for individuals and groups without neglecting the idea of social justice, and that such a reshaping of political intervention may, at the same tim...
...society based on contractual relations governed (a) by the principle pacta sunt servanda and (b) by the idea of liberty that establishes a system of limited irresponsibility (the limits being contract...
...ed that "what is, is." He meant that change, "becoming," is illusion. A "Parmenidea n" approach discerns in nations something inherent in human existence, something primor...
...opposed the dictatorship. However, their previous attitudes used to be more negative. They accepted the idea of democracy, but only a small percentage of the society had a concrete idea about what dem...
...inism in 1956, the Church has functioned not only as a surrogate for the nation, but as custodian of an idea of solidarity rather different from the rigidities of administered and obligatory social ju...
...ive the discredit that the collapse of "actually existing socialism" has thrown over the very idea of socialism, it requires a new formulation. Even social democracy is presently suffering f...
...ce, or with their silent approval, in the name of the nation. An we can therefore understand where this idea --that the nation is an emblem of the right--originates in the tradition of the left. But t...
...ith themselves. To be more precise, empirical democracies have been compared with prevailing models and idea ls of democracy. Concerns with the viability and consolidation compete with new concerns abo...
