Description
A most exciting, original, and well documented presentation of the idea of civil society in the Western--in the broadest sense of the word, including Eastern Europe--historical experience and political tradition. -- S. N. Eisenstadt, The Hoover Institute and Hebrew University Seligman argues his case in an attractively open manner and with great range, both in terms of ideas and institutions. His is the best book on the subject at the moment: lucid, high-powered, convincing, and approachable. -- John A. Hall, McGill University
About the Author
Adam B. Seligman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviews
"One of the merits of Adam Seligman's wide-ranging, probing, and deeply reflective inquiry into the history and uses of the idea of civil society is that it is concerned explicitly with identifying the ambiguities in its applications to contemporary societies ... In one aspect Mr. "Seligman's book is an exploration of the idea of civil society in all its contemporary and historical ironies and ambiguities, one that is richly learned and subtly reasoned. In another it is a question mark over the very idea of a civil society."--John Gray, The New York Times Book Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780691010816
Author Adam B. Seligman
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 369g