Civil society and social reconstruction /
Civil society and social reconstruction /
edited by George F. McLean.
- Washington, DC : The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1996.
- xii, 434 p. ; 23 cm.
- Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series I, vol.16 .
Include bibliographical references and index.
PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter I. Philosophy and civil society: its nature, its past and its future --
Chapter II. Three models of civil society in the framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 --
PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE --
Chapter III. Community, coercion and civil society: constructive pluralism or servile state? --
Chapter IV. The state, development, and civil society: in the case of Algeria --
Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society --
PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter VI. Quantitative and qualitative growth in industrial global society --
Chapter VII. Hospitality, community, and literary reading and writing --
Chapter VIII. Rituals and public life: their role in the process of social reconstruction --
Chapter IX. "The family": Obstacle or Embryo of civil society --
Chapter X. Neighborhoods --
Chapter XI. Notes on an international civil society: a comment on the report of the commission on global governance --
Chapter XII. Public confidence building measures as examples of civil society initiatives: a practical perspective --
PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter XIII. Current humanoids and the return to civil society --
Chapter XIV. Religious experience and civil society --
Chapter XV. America's quest for a new moral bedrock-a Muslim perspective --
Chapter XVI. The four goals of life in Hindu thought as principles for a civil society --
Chapter XVII. Iniquity and retribution in the Hindu-Buddhist sources --
Chapter XVIII. Civil equality of religions in society
0819173576
Acc#37846
CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL SOCIETY--CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
CIVIL SOCIETY--PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
JC 336 / C499 1996
Include bibliographical references and index.
PART I NATURE AND MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter I. Philosophy and civil society: its nature, its past and its future --
Chapter II. Three models of civil society in the framing of the U.S. Republic: 1781-1789 --
PART II PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE --
Chapter III. Community, coercion and civil society: constructive pluralism or servile state? --
Chapter IV. The state, development, and civil society: in the case of Algeria --
Chapter V. Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society --
PART III THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter VI. Quantitative and qualitative growth in industrial global society --
Chapter VII. Hospitality, community, and literary reading and writing --
Chapter VIII. Rituals and public life: their role in the process of social reconstruction --
Chapter IX. "The family": Obstacle or Embryo of civil society --
Chapter X. Neighborhoods --
Chapter XI. Notes on an international civil society: a comment on the report of the commission on global governance --
Chapter XII. Public confidence building measures as examples of civil society initiatives: a practical perspective --
PART IV METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY --
Chapter XIII. Current humanoids and the return to civil society --
Chapter XIV. Religious experience and civil society --
Chapter XV. America's quest for a new moral bedrock-a Muslim perspective --
Chapter XVI. The four goals of life in Hindu thought as principles for a civil society --
Chapter XVII. Iniquity and retribution in the Hindu-Buddhist sources --
Chapter XVIII. Civil equality of religions in society
0819173576
Acc#37846
CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL SOCIETY--CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
CIVIL SOCIETY--PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
JC 336 / C499 1996