The Necessity of Politics – Reclaiming American Public Life

ForewordJean Bethke ElshtainAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Concept of Civil Society1. The Concept of Civil Society and the Contemporary Predicament2. The Concept of Civil Society and the Modern ProblematicPart 2: The Progenitors of Civil Society3. The Tocquevillian Tradition4. The Tocquevillian Legacy5. Hegelian Tradition6. Civil Society in the Polish Solidarity Movement7. The Product of Two TraditionsPart 3: The Insufficiency of Civil Society8. Tocqueville, Hegel, and the Sufficiency of Civil Society9. The Contemporary Concept and the Question of SufficiencyPart 4: The Necessity of Politics10. Medium Party Political Associations11. Government and the Construction of the Moral Society12. The American State as a Moral ActorNotesIndex