About this book
At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting, for the first time in English, a sample of the best, recently written essays on contemporary civil societies, their structural problems, and their uncertain future, written by scholars with a close, long-standing relationship with the city. They are pre-occupied with a broad sweep of substantive themes, but in each case they focus upon one or other of the key trends that are shaping actually existing civil societies.
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Table of contents
- Civil Society
- CONTENTS
- EDITORS’ PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: CITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 1. CIVIL SOCIETY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
- CHAPTER 2. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND HISTORICAL INJUSTICE
- CHAPTER 3. THE FACES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- CHAPTER 4. CIVIL SOCIETY: DESPERATE WISHFUL THINKING?
- CHAPTER 5. TRANSFORMATIONS OF GERMAN CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 6. CIVILITY, VIOLENCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 7. IS THERE, OR CAN THERE BE, A ‘EUROPEAN SOCIETY’?
- CHAPTER 8. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CHALLENGING NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
- CHAPTER 9. ENTANGLED HISTORIES
- CHAPTER 10. THE TEMPTATIONS OF UNFREEDOM
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
