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020			_a978-81-7596-108-1
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100			_aKaviraj Sudipta, Khilnani Sunil
245			_aCivil Society : _bHistory and possibilities / _cSudipta Kaviraj, Sunil Khilnani.
250			_a1st ed. _b2014.
260			_aNew delhi. _bCambridge university press. _c2014.
300			_a330 p . ; _bsoftbound _c14x22cm
505			_a1.Theoretical traditions in the west 2.Arguments in the south
520			_aCivil society is one of the most used and abused concepts in current political thinking.In this important collection of essays the concepts is subjected to rigorious analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the historical and comparative understanding of political thought.The volume is divided into two parts:The first section analyses the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of western philosophy.In the second section contributors consider the theoretical and practical contexts in which the notion of civil society has been invoked in Asia ,Africa and latin america.These essays demonstrate how an influential western idea like civil society is itself altered and innovatively modified by the specific contexts of intellectual and practical life in the societies of the south.
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