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Civil Society Readings

 
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 
Arendt, Hannah. ([1958] 1998). The Human Condition (2nd Edition). Chicago: Chicago University Press.
 
Banner, Michael. (2007). "Christianity and Civil Society." In Christian Political Ethics, J. A. Coleman (ed.), 3-21. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Berger, Peter and Richard John Neuhaus. (1996). To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (2nd Edition), Michael Novak (ed.). Washington: AEI Press.
 
Calhoun, Craig. (2001). "Civil Society/Public Sphere: History of the Concept(s)." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds.), pp. 1897-1903. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
 
Chaplin, Jonathan. (2011). Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
 
Cohen Jean L. and Andrew Arato. (1992). Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press.
 
De Dijn, Annelien. (2007). "Civil Society in the History of Ideas: The French Tradition." WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP IV 2007-401.
 
De Tocqueville, Alexis. ([1835/1840] 2000). Democracy in America, H. C. Mansfield and D. Winthrop (trans. and eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 
Dunn, John. (1996). "The Contemporary Political Significance of John Locke's Conception of Civil Society." Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly: Vol. 45, 103-124.
 
Edwards, Michael. (2014). Civil Society. Third Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
 
Ferguson, Adam. ([1767] 1996). An Essay on the History of Civil Society, F. Oz-Salzberger (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Habermas, Jurgen. (1996). "Civil Society and the Public Sphere." In Between Facts and Norms: Contribution to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
 
Hegel, Georg W. F. ([1820] 1991). "Civil Society." In Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Allen Wood (ed.), H. B. Nisbet (trans.), pp. 220-274. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Hittinger, Russell. (2001). "Reasons for a Civil Society." In Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State, T. Fuller and J. P. Hittinger (eds.), 11-23. Notre Dame: American Maritain Centre.
 
Islamoglu, Huricihan. (2001). "Civil Society, Concept and History of." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds.), pp. 1891-1897. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
 
Jensen, Mark N. (2006). "Concepts and Concepts of Civil Society." Journal of Civil Society: Vol. 2, No. 1, 39-56.
 
Joas, Hans & Frank Adloff. (2006). "Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit." In Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives, J. H. Keane (ed.), pp. 103-138. New York: Berghahn Books.
 
Keane, John. (1988). "Despotism and Democracy: The Origins and Development of the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State, 1750-1850." In Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, John Keane (ed.), pp. 35-71. Brooklyn: Verso.
 
Kocka, Jurgen. (2005). "Civil Society: Some Remarks on the Career of a Concept." In Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity: Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg (eds.), pp. 141-147. Leiden: Brill.
 
Koselleck, Reinhart. (2002). "Three Bürgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England and France." In The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Todd Samuel Presner (trans.), pp. 208-217. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
 
Mastnak, Tomaž. (2008). "The Reinvention of Civil Society: Through the Looking Glass of Democracy." European Journal of Sociology: Vol. 46, No. 2, 323-355.
 
Miszlivetz, Francis. (2008). "A Concise Bibliography of Civil Society." Occasional Publication #13, Institute for Social and European Studies, Koszeg, Hungary.
 
Oz-Salzberger, Fania. (2001). "Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment," In Civil Society: History and Possibilities, S. Kaviraj and S. Khilnani (eds.), pp. 58-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Post, Robert C. and Nancy L. Rosenblum. (2002). "Introduction," In Civil Society and Government, N. Rosenblum and R. Post (eds.), pp. 1-25. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (1975). "Gesellschaft, bürgerliche". In Geschictliche Grundbegriffe. Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland, Band 2.  O. Brunner, W. Conze, R. Koselleck (eds.), pp. 719-800. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (1984). "'State' and 'Civil Society': Linguistic Context and Historical Origin." In Between Tradition and Revolution: The Hegelian Tranformation of Political Philosophy, Walter Wright (trans.), pp. 129-156. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
Riedel, Manfred. (2011). Bürgerliche Gesellschaft: Eine Kategorie der klassischen Politik und des modernen Naturrechts, Harald Seubert and Friedemann Sprang (eds.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
 
Seligman, Adam B. (1992). The Idea of Civil Society. New York: The Free Press.  Re-issued in Paperback by Princeton University Press, (1995).
 
Taylor, Charles. (1991). "Civil Society in the Western Tradition." In The Notion of Tolerance and Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky, Ethel Groffier and Michel Paradis (eds.), pp. 117-136. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. An earlier version of this essay was published in Public Culture: Vol. 3, No. 1, 95-118, (1990).
 
Wagner, Peter (ed.). (2006). The Languages of Civil Society. New York: Berghahn Books.
 
 
 

Historical Notes

  • Anna Leonowens is known in Nova Scotia as one of the organizers of the Victoria School of Art (now NSCAD University) in 1887. She subsequently became involved in organizing the Women's Suffrage Association, where she became the first President. Although Anna was not to live to see it, the political coalition behind women's suffrage was eventually successful with the passing of the Nova Scotia Franchise Act of 26 April, 1918.

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