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Page i Civil Society and Political Theory Page ii Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought (partial list) Thomas McCarthy, General Editor Theodor W. Adorno, Prisms Seyla Benhabib and Fred Dallmayr, editors, The Communicative Ethics Controversy Richard J. Bernstein, editor, Habermas and Modernity Ernst Bloch, Natural Law and Human Dignity Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Hans Blumenberg, Work on Myth Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Craig Calhoun, editor, Habermas and the Public Sphere Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory Helmut Dubiel, Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory John Forester, editor, Critical Theory and Public Life David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin Jürgen Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action Jürgen Habermas, The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jürgen Habermas, Philosophical-Political Profiles Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory Axel Honneth and Hans Joas, editors, Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action Reinhart Koselleck, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time Harry Liebersohn, Fate and Utopia in German Sociology,1887–1923 Guy Oakes, Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences Claus Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State Claus Offe, Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics Joachim Ritter, Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy of Right Alfred Schmidt, History and Structure: An Essay on Hegelian-Marxist and Structuralist Theories of History Dennis Schmidt, The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy Carl Schmitt, Political Romanticism Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty Gary Smith, editor, On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections Michael Theunissen, The Other: Studies in the Social Ontology of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Buber Ernst Tugendhat, Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination Mark Warren, Nietzsche and Political Thought Albrecht Wellmer, The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics and Postmodernism Thomas E. Wren, editor, The Moral Domain: Essays in the Ongoing Discussion between Philosophy and the Social Sciences Lambert Zuidervaart, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion Page iii Civil Society and Political Theory Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England Page iv To Julian and Rachel Fourth printing,1997 First MIT Press paperback edition,1994 ©1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means (including information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in New Baskerville at MIT Press and was printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Jean L. Civil society and political theory / Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato p. cm. — (Studies in contemporary German social thought) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-03177-9 (H), 0-262-53121-6 (P) 1. Civil society.2. Civil society—History. I. Arato, Andrew. II. Title. III. Series. JC336.C65 1990 306.2—dc20 90-46723 CIP Page v CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1xixvii I The Discourse of Civil Society 1 29 The Contemporary Revival of Civil Society 2 83 Conceptual History and Theoretical Synthesis 3 117 Theoretical Development in the Twentieth Century II The Discontents of Civil Society 4 177 The Normative Critique: Hannah Arendt 5 201 The Historicist Critique: Carl Schmitt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Jürgen Habermas 6 255 The Genealogical Critique: Michel Foucault 7 299 The Systems-Theoretic Critique: Niklas Luhmann III The Reconstruction of Civil Society 8 345 Discourse Ethics and Civil Society 9 421 Social Theory and Civil Society 10 492 Social Movements and Civil Society 11 564 Civil Disobedience and Civil Society Notes 605 Index 745 DETAILED CONTENTS PREFACE The Structure of This Book ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Elite Vs. Participatory Democracy Rights-Oriented Liberalism Vs. Communitarianism The Defense of Welfare State Vs. Neoconservative Antistatism Revival of the Concept of Civil Society Civil Society and Contemporary Political Theory I. THE DISCOURSE OF CIVIL SOCIETY 1. The Contemporary Revival of Civil Society The Polish Democratic Opposition The Ideology of the "Second Left" in France A Theory for the West German Greens Civil Society in the Transition from Latin American Dictatorships Revisiting Eastern Europe in the Late 1980s Some Comparisons and Some Problems 2. Conceptual History and Theoretical Synthesis A Sketch of Early Modern Conceptual History Hegel's Synthesis Integration through the State Social Integration Through Civil Society 3. Theoretical Development in the Twentieth Century Parsons: Civil Society between Tradition and Modernity Gramsci and the Idea of Socialist Civil Society Excursus on Gramsci's Successors: Althusser, Anderson, and Bobbio II. THE DISCONTENTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY 4. The Normative Critique: Hannah Arendt 5. The Historicist Critique: Carl Schmitt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Jürgen Habermas The Origins of the Liberal Public Sphere: Carl Schmitt and Reinhart Koselleck From a Literary to a Political Public Sphere: Jürgen Habermas The Fusion of Civil Society and State: Carl Schmitt The Fusion Argument in Habermas's Strukturwandel 6. The Genealogical Critique: Michel Foucault Marx, Generalized The Genealogy of Modern Civil Society The Philosophical and Normative Ambiguities of Genealogy The Genealogical Account of Modernization The Negativity of Civil Society and the Loss of the Social 7. The SystemsTheoretic Critique: Niklas Luhmann III. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY 8. Discourse Ethics and Civil Society The Object Domain of Discourse Ethics The Charge of Authoritarianism Discourse Ethics and the Good Life Excessive Formalism Universality? Motivation An Institutional Deficit? Discourse Ethics and Civil Society 9. Social Theory and Civil Society Reconstructing Civil Society Civil Society, Lifeworld, and the Differentiation of Society Beyond Traditional Civil Society The Negative Dimensions of Civil Society The Utopia of Civil Society The Institutional Two-Dimensionality of Existing Civil Society The Politics of Civil Society Critique of the Welfare State Reflexive Continuation of the Welfare State and Liberal Democracy Defense of the Lifeworld Dualistic Solutions? The Return of Mediations Reflexive Law and Postregulatory Regulation Another Glance to the East 10. Social Movements and Civil Society New Theoretical Paradigms and Contemporary Social Movements The ResourceMobilization Paradigm The New Social Movements Paradigm Dualistic Social Theory and Contemporary Social Movements A Feminist Critique of Dualistic Social Theory Dual Politics: The Example of the Feminist Movement Civil Society and Dual Politics: A Theoretical Summary
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