The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights

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ID19935587
AuthorsGary Brent Madison (corresponding author)
Year2002
Publication date2002-09-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitical Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203072356
OpenAlexW565189814
ISBN9780203072356
Open LibraryOL33737509M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Madison uses the concept of civil society and his distinctive version of 'communicative rationality' to provide a closely-argued and robust defence of the neo-liberal political and economic tradition. Writing with considerable elegance and humour, the author draws on the hermeneutical and neo-pragmatist traditions, and on a diverse range of evidence and discussion, mainly concerning transitional economies and societies in Eastern Europe and around the world. Providing a systematic analysis of the multi-faceted notion of civil society, this book shows in detail how the three main orders of civil society - the moral-cultural, the political, and the economic - constitute 'spheres of autonomy'. At the same time, it illustrates how these different orders are closely interrelated and interact in a synergetic manner. A unique feature of this study is the way in which the author demonstrates how the logic of the various orders of civil society is, in a way appropriate to the distinct nature of each order, a logic of communicative rationality. The work concludes by arguing that the only sure way of achieving international justice is by the construction of civil society world-wide

Civil rights · Civil society · Economics · Human rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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