Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society

Steven M. DeLue, Timothy Dale (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

458 Seiten

2016 | 4th New edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64361-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills. This text is uniquely organized around the theme of civil society — what is the nature of a civil society? why is it important? — that will engage students and help make the material relevant. Major thinkers discussed in the text are explored not only with the goal of understanding their views, but also with an interest in understanding the relationship of their ideas to the notion of a civil society. DeLue and Dale contend that a civil society is important for securing the way of life that most of us value and want to preserve, a way of life that allows people to live freely and place significance on their own lives.


New to the Fourth Edition








Connects traditional political theory to contemporary challenges to civil society including new coverage of US electoral politics, the Black Lives Matter movement, Citizens United, and Robert Putnam’s view of the decline of social support systems.







Updates the coverage of feminism and feminist thinkers, including coverage of gay marriage, in the context of civil society.







Expands coverage of global civil society, especially in terms of contemporary challenges posed by ISIS, the failure of the Arab Spring, and ongoing humanitarian crises in Syria, Iran, and beyond.

Autor

Steven M. DeLue is Professor Emeritus at Miami University of Ohio. Timothy M. Dale is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse.

Inhalt

Preface  Introduction  1. The Importance of a Civil Society  Part I: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions  2. Plato: Civic Virtue And the Just Society Chapter  3. Aristotle’s Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship Chapter  4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue Chapter  5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought  Part II: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society  6. Niccolò Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society  7. Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society  8. Spinoza and Liberal Democracy  9. John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority  10: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society  Part III: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society  11. Kant: Civil Society and International Order  12. Hegel: Civil Society and the State  13. Marx and the Economic Argument About Civil Society  14. John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling  15. John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society  16. The Conservative View: Burke, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott  Part IV: Critiques of Civil Society  17. The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Michel Foucault  18. Feminist Responses to Civil Society  19. Multiculturalism and the Challenges of a Global Civil Society  20. Conclusion: Civil Society and Civic Renewal

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 704 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-10: 1-138-64361-0 / 1138643610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-138-64361-1 / 9781138643611
• Zustand: Neuware