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Tables of Contents for The Necessity of Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
8
Part 1: The Concept of Civil Society
The Concept of Civil Society and the Contemporary Predicament
9
33
The Concept of Civil Society and the Modern Problematic
42
13
Part 2: The Progenitors of Civil Society
The Tocquevillian Tradition
55
21
The Tocquevillian Legacy
76
18
The Hegelian Tradition
94
17
Civil Society in the Polish Solidarity Movement
111
17
The Product of Two Traditions
128
17
Part 3: The Insufficiency of Civil Society
Tocqueville, Hegel, and the Sufficiency of Civil Society
145
16
The Contemporary Concept and the Question of Sufficiency
161
36
Part 4: The Necessity of Politics
Medium Party Political Associations
197
21
Government and the Construction of the Moral Society
218
17
The American State as a Moral Actor
235
26
Notes
261
42
Index
303