Uncivil Society

The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism

By:

Richard Boyd

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Hardback

Series:

Applications of Political Theory

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Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for maintaining liberal democratic institutions. In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues-through a careful reading of such seminal figures as Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Mill, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott-that contemporary theorists have not only tended to ignore the question of which sorts of groups ought to count as “civil society” but they have also unduly discounted the ambivalence of violent and illiberal groups in a liberal democracy. Boyd seeks to correct this conceptual confusion by offering us a better moral taxonomy of the virtue of civility.

Author Biography:

Richard Boyd is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 2004

Author

Richard Boyd

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

332

Series

Applications of Political Theory

Dimensions

185x234x33

ISBN-13

9780739109083

Product ID

7452339

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