... by nature are prone to gambling. But then again the basic premise of gambling goes against the fabric of modern day societies where pay is equated with one's productivity. On the other hand most ...
...er can represent as great a danger to social solidarity, social justice, and autonomy as the power of the modern state. So only a concept of civil society differentiated from the economy could become ...
... of the Enlightenment, they rejected the images of the body politic that had dominated medieval and early modern political thinking. For a Jefferson or a Madison such tropes as "the King's tw...
...ble of social learning? Are we capable of moral vision? What can we possibly mean by a good society under modern circumstances? What would the political institutions of a good society look like with d...
...sent in the activities structured by that social space. In particular, we can ask this about modern social space, since the concern with modern ity is central to the Hegelian story about t...
...als, e.g., The Public Interest (as a more or less disguised version of "socialism" or "postmodern populism"), but has also already been the occasion for articles and debates in maj...
... been used by Alfred Chandler in a somewhat different way. He stresses the decisive role of management of modern business enterprise insofar as it is replacing "what Adam Smith referred to as the...
... under changed economic conditions. In the following, I shall deal with some fundamental problems of the modern welfare state as I see them. After that, I shall try to point out in which direction st...
...ts and some obligations for "dependents"). That is why societies that we have come to regard as modern do not rely on social solidarity but rather on some kind of insurance system or welfare...
... coalition and movement. And this suggests a cultural program that holds forth a new vision of a kind of modern society that does not revert to traditional forms of solidarity and hierarchy, but is a...
... be trimmed and the national parliaments should retain their powers as far as possible. As a German "modern ist" I was put right in my place. While some of the Eastern Central European countr...
... its intransigence. Consequently, its reemergence poses old quandaries anew. Marx's famous quip about modern ity, that "all that's solid melts into air," would seem an appropriate met...
...ovakia, in Croatia, in Serbia and anywhere else. A brief word about the second point: ghettoization. The modern pattern of migration produces, at least initially, a diaspora of ghettos, mostly urban....
...ut democracy, Hunter talks to the culturally engaged: religious fundamentalists of all faiths and liberal modern ists concerned with individual and group rights. He finds that " America is in the ...
...of the welfare state have led to its present difficulties. Once groups with much to win, many segments of modern society have been transformed into enclaves of those with something to lose. The social...
...What I propose to do here is the following: (1) to affirm that pluralism is the central characteristic of modern democracy, i.e., of the liberal democratic regime whose principles of legitimacy are th...
...of the French Revolution, was a creation of the left. Of course, I refer to the "nation" in its modern sense--the nation of the Republic, the political nation, the nation of the citizens. Th...
...ide level, which has created tremendous strains on different sectors of the national economies seeking to modern ize and adapt to the new challenges without much help from their respective state. This...
