Embacher, Serge / Lang, Susanne (2008): Learning and Working Paper civil society. An introduction to key civil society present and future issues. Bonn: Dietz.
Is it realistic to that is emancipated citizenship takes so much responsibility that the public sector and relieved the company is strengthened? Is this just an alibi or a real opportunity to improve transparency, participation and commitment, the future of democracy? The hopes are on the "civil society" addressed are enormous. There are opportunities and risks. Serge Lang and Susanne Embacher see civil society as "a historic opportunity" for forms of "practical self-organization and self-determination of a emancipated citizenship (10). Embacher and long distinguished between the liberal and cohesive civil society. Solidarity in times of crisis has great significance. Whether this succeeds, however, leave open the authors. This "can not be decided in books" (370), but result from a practical civic engagement into the local situation. The well-designed book gives an excellent overview of the current debate on civil society and draws a line from volunteering about the "uncivil society" to the communitarianism and corporate responsibility in civil society (Corporate Citizenship). All the major representatives of civil society and the communitarianism of John Rawls to Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor, and Amitai Etzioni described and shown conclusively in their significance. Accordingly, "the civil society a central reference point for social justice" (163). Embacher and long pass from the "Vision of a New Social Contract" (13) whose "real Foundation of civil society is "(13). It is considered a key component of the "Enlightenment project" as defined Immanuel Kant. The conclusion of the authors is dominated normative. "A livable society for all can only occur when all contribute their own ideas, needs and interests and actively get involved in this sense in their own affairs" (15).
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