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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.

This book is one of the first studies of its kind, and provides a systematic analysis of the multi-faceted notion of civil society.

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CONTENTS

Introduction = ⅸ

1 THE IDEA OF CIVIL SOCIETY = 1

 The Year of Trutb = 1

 The rebirtb of an idea = 7

 Civil society and human rights = 11

2 A NEW THREAT TO AN OLD IDEA = 19

 The new tribalism = 19

 Civil society versus community = 24

 A word of warning from the East = 33

 Rethinking civil society = 35

3 THE MORAL-CULTURAL ORDER = 38

 The importance of ideas = 38

 Communicative rationaliy = 41

 Spontaneous orders and the order of truth = 51

 The rules of rationality = 57

 The ethics of communicative rationality = 62

 Freedom under seige = 66

 Freedom, a universal value = 73

4 THE POLITICAL ORDER = 75

 The spontaneous order of the democratic polity = 75

 The discussion／deliberation community = 78

 The public realm : private interests and the public good = 88

 The role of government in civil society = 102

 The civic culture of a democratic regime = 112

 The polity and the economy = 123

5 THE ECONOMIC ORDER = 125

 Democray and the market = 125

 The spontaneous ofter of the market = 132

 The role of the state in the eocnomy = 151

 Democratic capitalism and social justice = 167

APPENDIX

 On Civil Society and International Justice = 183

Notes = 205

References = 273

Name index = 293

Subject index = 299