The civil sphere / / Jeffrey C. Alexander

• Autore: Alexander Jeffrey C. <1947->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (814 p.)
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetto topico: Civil society; Cultural pluralism; Social interaction
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; PART I: CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOCIAL THEORY; 1 Possibilities of Justice; 2 Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization; Civil Society I; Civil Society II; Return to Civil Society I?; Toward Civil Society III; 3 Bringing Democracy Back In: Realism, Morality, Solidarity; Utopianism: The Fallacies of Twentieth-Century Evolutionism; Realism: The Tradition of Thrasymachus; Morality and Solidarity; Complexity and Community; Cultural Codes and Democratic Communication; PART II: STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CIVIL SPHERE; 4 Discourses: Liberty and Repression ; Pure and Impure in Civil DiscourseThe Binary Structures of Motives; The Binary Structures of Relationships; The Binary Structures of Institutions; Civil Narratives of Good and Evil; Everyday Essentialism; The Conflict over Representation; 5 Communicative Institutions: Public Opinion, Mass Media, Polls, Associations; The Public and Its Opinion; The Mass Media; Public Opinion Polls; Civil Associations; 6 Regulative Institutions (1): Voting, Parties, Office; Civil Power: A New Approach to Democratic Politics; Revisiting Thrasymachus: The Instrumental Science of Politics ; Constructing and Destructing Civil Power (1): The Right to Vote and DisenfranchisementConstructing and Destructing Civil Power (2): Parties, Partisanship, and Election Campaigns; Civil Power in the State: Office as Regulating Institution; 7 Regulative Institutions (2): The Civil Force of Law; The Democratic Possibilities of Law; Bracketing and Rediscovering the Civil Sphere: The Warring Schools of Jurisprudence; The Civil Morality of Law; Constitutions as Civil Regulation; The Civil Life of Ordinary Law; Legalizing Social Exclusion: The Antidemocratic Face of Law ; 8 Contradictions: Uncivilizing Pressures and Civil RepairSpace: The Geography of Civil Society; Time: Civil Society as Historical Sedimentation; Function: The Destruction of Boundary Relations and Their Repair; Forms of Boundary Relations: Input, Intrusion, and Civil Repair; PART III: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE CIVIL SPHERE; 9 Social Movements as Civil Translations; The Classical Model; The Social Science of Social Movements (1): Secularizing the Classical Model; The Social Science of Social Movements (2): Inverting the Classical Model ; The Social Science of Social Movements (3): Updating the Classical ModelDisplacing the Classical Model: Rehistoricizing the Cultural and Institutional Context of Social Movements; Social Movements as Translations of Civil Societies; 10 Gender and Civil Repair: The Long and Winding Road through M/otherhood; Justifying Gender Domination: Relations between the Intimate and Civil Spheres; Women's Difference as Facilitating Input; Women's Difference as Destructive Intrusion; Gender Universalism and Civil Repair; The Compromise Formation of Public M/otherhood; Public Stage and Civil Sphere ; Universalism versus Difference: Feminist Fortunes in the Twentieth Century
• Sommario/riassunto: How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, ""The Civil Sphere"", addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others - the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest - are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, ""The Civil Sphere"" is a major contribution to our thinking about the real, but ideal world in which we all reside
• Titolo autorizzato: The civil sphere
• ISBN: 9780198036814 (Electronic Book)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827694403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II