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A Place for Us
How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
Taschenbuch von Benjamin Barber
Sprache: Englisch

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In our crowded, noisy world-too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time-it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy?

In this provocative, hard-hitting book, political scientist Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them.

Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for affirming values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.

In our crowded, noisy world-too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time-it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy?

In this provocative, hard-hitting book, political scientist Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them.

Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for affirming values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.

Über den Autor
Benjamin R. Barber
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809076567
ISBN-10: 080907656X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barber, Benjamin
Hersteller: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Maße: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Benjamin Barber
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2004
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
preigu-id: 102481100
Über den Autor
Benjamin R. Barber
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809076567
ISBN-10: 080907656X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barber, Benjamin
Hersteller: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Maße: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Benjamin Barber
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2004
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
preigu-id: 102481100
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