Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society

Steven M. DeLue is Professor Emeritus at Miami University of Ohio. Timothy M. Dale is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse.

Preface  Introduction  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 Chapter  4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue Chapter  5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought  Part II: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society  6. Niccolò 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  Part IV: Critiques of Civil Society  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