DeLue, Steven M. <br/><br/>
Political thinking, political theory, and civil society/ 
Steven M. DeLue andTimothy M. Dale 
 - 4th ed. 
 - New York:  Routledge,  2017. 
 - xxix, 458 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>1. The Importance of a Civil Society <br/><br/>Part I: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions <br/>2. Plato: Civic Virtue And the Just Society Chapter <br/>3. Aristotle's Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship <br/>4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue <br/>5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought <br/><br/>Part II: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society <br/>6. Niccolo Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society <br/>7. Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society <br/>8. Spinoza and Liberal Democracy <br/>9. John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority <br/>10: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society <br/><br/>Part III: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society <br/>11. Kant: Civil Society and International Order <br/>12. Hegel: Civil Society and the State <br/>13. Marx and the Economic Argument About Civil Society <br/>14. John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling <br/>15. John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society <br/>16. The Conservative View: Burke, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott <br/>17. The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche's and Michel Foucault <br/>18. Feminist Responses to Civil Society <br/>19. Multiculturalism and the Challenges of a Global Civil Society <br/>20. Conclusion: Civil Society and Civic Renewal 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138643628 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Philosophy<br/>Civil society<br/>Western countries<br/>Political science
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.01  / DEL/P