Civil Society Readings

 
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 
Arendt, Hannah. ([1958] 1998). The Human Condition (2nd Edition). Chicago: Chicago University Press.
 
Banner, Michael. (2007). "Christianity and Civil Society." In Christian Political Ethics, J. A. Coleman (ed.), 3-21. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Berger, Peter and Richard John Neuhaus. (1996). To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (2nd Edition), Michael Novak (ed.). Washington: AEI Press.
 
Calhoun, Craig. (2001). "Civil Society/Public Sphere: History of the Concept(s)." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds.), pp. 1897-1903. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
 
Chaplin, Jonathan. (2011). Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
 
Cohen Jean L. and Andrew Arato. (1992). Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press.
 
De Dijn, Annelien. (2007). "Civil Society in the History of Ideas: The French Tradition." WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP IV 2007-401.
 
De Tocqueville, Alexis. ([1835/1840] 2000). Democracy in America, H. C. Mansfield and D. Winthrop (trans. and eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 
Dunn, John. (1996). "The Contemporary Political Significance of John Locke's Conception of Civil Society." Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly: Vol. 45, 103-124.
 
Edwards, Michael. (2014). Civil Society. Third Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
 
Ferguson, Adam. ([1767] 1996). An Essay on the History of Civil Society, F. Oz-Salzberger (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Habermas, Jurgen. (1996). "Civil Society and the Public Sphere." In Between Facts and Norms: Contribution to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
 
Hegel, Georg W. F. ([1820] 1991). "Civil Society." In Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Allen Wood (ed.), H. B. Nisbet (trans.), pp. 220-274. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Hittinger, Russell. (2001). "Reasons for a Civil Society." In Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State, T. Fuller and J. P. Hittinger (eds.), 11-23. Notre Dame: American Maritain Centre.
 
Islamoglu, Huricihan. (2001). "Civil Society, Concept and History of." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds.), pp. 1891-1897. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
 
Jensen, Mark N. (2006). "Concepts and Concepts of Civil Society." Journal of Civil Society: Vol. 2, No. 1, 39-56.
 
Joas, Hans & Frank Adloff. (2006). "Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit." In Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives, J. H. Keane (ed.), pp. 103-138. New York: Berghahn Books.
 
Keane, John. (1988). "Despotism and Democracy: The Origins and Development of the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State, 1750-1850." In Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, John Keane (ed.), pp. 35-71. Brooklyn: Verso.
 
Kocka, Jurgen. (2005). "Civil Society: Some Remarks on the Career of a Concept." In Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity: Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg (eds.), pp. 141-147. Leiden: Brill.
 
Koselleck, Reinhart. (2002). "Three Bürgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England and France." In The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Todd Samuel Presner (trans.), pp. 208-217. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
 
Mastnak, Tomaž. (2008). "The Reinvention of Civil Society: Through the Looking Glass of Democracy." European Journal of Sociology: Vol. 46, No. 2, 323-355.
 
Miszlivetz, Francis. (2008). "A Concise Bibliography of Civil Society." Occasional Publication #13, Institute for Social and European Studies, Koszeg, Hungary.
 
Oz-Salzberger, Fania. (2001). "Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment," In Civil Society: History and Possibilities, S. Kaviraj and S. Khilnani (eds.), pp. 58-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Post, Robert C. and Nancy L. Rosenblum. (2002). "Introduction," In Civil Society and Government, N. Rosenblum and R. Post (eds.), pp. 1-25. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (1975). "Gesellschaft, bürgerliche". In Geschictliche Grundbegriffe. Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland, Band 2.  O. Brunner, W. Conze, R. Koselleck (eds.), pp. 719-800. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (1984). "'State' and 'Civil Society': Linguistic Context and Historical Origin." In Between Tradition and Revolution: The Hegelian Tranformation of Political Philosophy, Walter Wright (trans.), pp. 129-156. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (2011). Bürgerliche Gesellschaft: Eine Kategorie der klassischen Politik und des modernen Naturrechts, Harald Seubert and Friedemann Sprang (eds.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
 
Seligman, Adam B. (1992). The Idea of Civil Society. New York: The Free Press.  Re-issued in Paperback by Princeton University Press, (1995).
 
Taylor, Charles. (1991). "Civil Society in the Western Tradition." In The Notion of Tolerance and Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky, Ethel Groffier and Michel Paradis (eds.), pp. 117-136. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. An earlier version of this essay was published in Public Culture: Vol. 3, No. 1, 95-118, (1990).
 
Wagner, Peter (ed.). (2006). The Languages of Civil Society. New York: Berghahn Books.