...rt. In Eastern Europe before 1989 the civil society concept was needed to identify the underground life and politics of totalitarian society, and it may still have some purchase in describing the curr...
...lysis or for mobilization against statist regimes, but it is certainly not adequate for serious analysis or politics within civil societies. Nevertheless, I do believe that the discourse of civ...
...il society, is that one might stop being a human being. (Here we might hear echoes of Aristotle in Marx: if politics is the realm of the human for Aristotle, then civil society is lacking something of...
...fe, especially the lives of society's victims, and granted each member a new-found dignity. The warrior politics of the ancient world found itself put on trial. Writes Tinder: "No one, then, ...
..., without some measure of increased communitarianism, the mounting frustrations of the American people over politics being governed by special interests, over unsafe cities and spreading epidemics of ...
...developments in the economic sphere might not have unexpected and indeed negative consequences for culture, politics , and eventually even economics itself. The heart of the communitarian message can ...
... on the basis of a kind of secularization of Jewish-Christian morality. A pluralist society with democratic politics is only possible if some people are willing to rec ognize a kind of shared identity...
...ve helped to create moral and intellectual community have remained isolated from the mainstream of American politics . Without real justification, they have thought of themselves as necessarily radical...
...mplex equality" should be conceived, a problem I cannot treat here). And we might see in this way left politics --and left values in general--as dealing with the social consequences of modernity. ...
...ostulating "high skills" as an alternative for "low wages" tells us something about the politics of the industrial policy discussion. It is an accommodation to the sensibilities of...
...s of a preventive social welfare policy which may help to mark the difference to traditional social welfare politics . A concept of preventive social welfare politics must necessarily go beyond the ind...
...ing to the fore their interests, and try to shape their polity. This notion of secular, radically pluralist politics is informed by the experience of a conflict-ridden society bereft of any transcende...
...obility and expansion (perhaps we could call it the frontier thesis in many ways) have played the role that politics and political negotiation and conflict have played in European societies. So, as it...
...g Austro-Marxist purposes too far if I suggest that they too accepted this principle by championing a class politics aimed at fashioning a federal socialist republic in which there would be systems of...
...e past, within limits. But it is better than mutual massacre or the racist transformation of national politics , which we see in many European countries. In this respect, events in the United Sta...
A mericans are increasingly oblivious to politics but exceptionally sensitive to culture. What constitutes for other countries the meat and potatoes of political conflict--the distribution of income a
...onsensus, in the nineteenth century, that our nation's foundations were a capitalist economy, a liberal politics , and a Protestant religion? Perhaps--but everything that has happened since then re...
... Latin America, and now eastern Europe points in this direction. These situations prove the extent to which politics and policies matter. Reductions of inequality combined with economic growth, as obs...
