Solidarity, Justice, and Incorporation (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking through The Civil Sphere
Redaktion: Kivisto, Peter; Sciortino, Giuseppe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book re-engages with Jeffrey C. Alexander's work on civil society. The editors, Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino, locate Alexander's civil sphere thesis in terms of his larger theoretical project in the introduction and what follows are contributions from six internationally recognized scholars offering their insights into the impact of this work. Finally, Alexander responds by clarifying and elaborating upon the concept of the civil sphere.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190266813
• Artikelnr.: 42522083

Autorenporträt

Peter Kivisto is the Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College and was formerly the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. Giuseppe Sciortino is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento and a Faculty Fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Introduction: Thinking Through the Civil Sphere, Peter Kivisto and
Giuseppe Sciortino
* Chapter 1: Religiong and the Civil Sphere: A Global Perspective,
Robert Bellah
* Chapter 2: Civil Sphere and Political Performance: Critical
Reflections on Jeffrey C. Alexander's Cultural Sociology, Bryan S.
Turner
* Chapter 3: Civil Society as a Democratic Battlefield: Comments on
Jeffrey C. Alexander's The Civil Sphere, Axel Honneth
* Chapter 4: Social Movements, Civil Repair, and Social Movement
Theory, Mario Diani
* Chapter 5: The Jewish Question and the Civil Sphere, Chad Alan
Goldberg
* Chapter 6: The Civil Sphere and the Arab Spring: On the Universality
of Civil Society, Farhad Khosrokhavar
* Chapter 7: Nine Theses on the Civil Sphere, Jeffrey C. Alexander
* Notes
* Index