Conceptions of Civil Society

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 124-28
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A review of The Idea of Civil Society, by Adam B. Seligman, and Civil Society and Political Theory, by Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato.

About the Author

Susan Shell, professor of political science at Boston College, is the author of The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant’s Philosophy and Politics (1980).

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