The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights.
Title:
The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights.
Author:
Madison, Gary B.
ISBN:
9780203072356
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Series:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Contents:
Cover -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE IDEA OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- THE YEAR OF TRUTH -- THE REBIRTH OF AN IDEA -- CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- 2 A NEW THREAT TO AN OLD IDEA -- THE NEW TRIBALISM -- CIVIL SOCIETY VERSUS COMMUNITY -- A WORD OF WARNING FROM THE EAST -- RETHINKING CIVIL SOCIETY -- 3 THE MORAL-CULTURAL ORDER -- THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEAS -- COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY -- SPONTANEOUS ORDERS AND THE ORDER OF TRUTH -- THE RULES OF RATIONALITY -- THE ETHICS OF COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY -- FREEDOM UNDER SEIGE -- FREEDOM, A UNIVERSAL VALUE -- 4 THE POLITICAL ORDER -- THE SPONTANEOUS ORDER OF THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY -- THE DISCUSSION/DELIBERATION COMMUNITY -- THE PUBLIC REALM: PRIVATE INTERESTS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD -- THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN CIVIL SOCIETY -- THE CIVIC CULTURE OF A DEMOCRATIC REGIME -- THE POLITY AND THE ECONOMY -- 5 THE ECONOMIC ORDER -- DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET -- THE SPONTANEOUS ORDER OF THE MARKET -- THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE ECONOMY -- DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- APPENDIX -- ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.
Abstract:
Madison uses the concept of civil society and his distinctive version of 'communicative rationality' to provide a closely-argued and robust defence of the neo-liberal political and economic tradition. Writing with considerable elegance and humour, the author draws on the hermeneutical and neo-pragmatist traditions, and on a diverse range of evidence and discussion, mainly concerning transitional economies and societies in Eastern Europe and around the world. Providing a systematic analysis of the multi-faceted notion of civil society, this book shows in detail how the three main orders of civil society - the moral-cultural, the political, and the economic - constitute 'spheres of autonomy'. At the same time, it illustrates how these different orders are closely interrelated and interact in a synergetic manner. A unique feature of this study is the way in which the author demonstrates how the logic of the various orders of civil society is, in a way appropriate to the distinct nature of each order, a logic of communicative rationality. The work concludes by arguing that the only sure way of achieving international justice is by the construction of civil society world-wide.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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