Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society (Hardcover, 5 ed)

Introduction 1. The Importance of a Civil Society Part 1: Civil Society in the Classical and Religious Traditions 2. Plato: Civic Virtue and the Just Society 3. Aristotle’s Response to Plato: The Importance of Friendship 43 4. Christian Conceptions of Civic Virtue 5. Elements of Islamic and Jewish Medieval Political Thought Part 2: Early Modern Approaches to Civil Society 6. Niccolo Machiavelli: Civic Virtue and Civil Society 7. Thomas Hobbes and Modern Civil Society 8. Benedict Spinoza and Liberal Democracy 9. John Locke, Civil Society, and the Constrained Majority 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Community and Civil Society Part 3: Late Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Civil Society 11. Immanuel Kant: Civil Society and International Order 12. G. W. F. Hegel: Civil Society and the State 13. Karl 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: Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Michael Oakeshott Part 4: Critiques of Civil Society 17. The Critique of Power in Civil Society: Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault 18. Feminism, Gender Equality, and Civil Society 19. 21st Century Challenges for Civil Society: Culture, Religion, and Climate Change 20. Civil Society, Liberal Democracy, and Racial Injustice: A Political Theory Informed by the Black Experience in America