TY - GEN AU - DeLue, Steven M. AU - Dale, Timothy M. TI - Political thinking, political theory, and civil society SN - 9781138643628 U1 - 320.01 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Political science--Philosophy KW - Civil society KW - Western countries KW - Political science N1 - 1. The Importance of a Civil Society Part I: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions 2. Plato: Civic Virtue And the Just Society Chapter 3. Aristotle's Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship 4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue 5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought Part II: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society 6. Niccolo Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society 7. Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society 8. Spinoza and Liberal Democracy 9. John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority 10: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society Part III: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society 11. Kant: Civil Society and International Order 12. Hegel: Civil Society and the State 13. Marx and the Economic Argument About Civil Society 14. John Stuart Mill: Civil Society as a Higher Calling 15. John Rawls: The Just and Fair Civil Society 16. The Conservative View: Burke, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott 17. The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche's and Michel Foucault 18. Feminist Responses to Civil Society 19. Multiculturalism and the Challenges of a Global Civil Society 20. Conclusion: Civil Society and Civic Renewal ER -