Concepts and conceptions of civil society
Concepts and conceptions of civil society
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公民社会的概念和构想
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2006
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Mark N. Jensen
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Mark N. Jensen
摘要本文对当代讨论中关于公民社会概念的三种相互对立的方法提出了异议，认为这些方法都不能作为对这一概念的一般解释。相反，它认为，“公民社会”一词并没有挑选出一般的概念：“公民社会”的用法充满了理论色彩，因此只能从其起源的理论、实践和历史背景中加以理解。这篇文章的结论是，如果理论家将市民社会的概念置于特定的语境中，它仍然具有批判性的价值。
Abstract This article takes issue with three rival approaches to conceptualizing the idea of civil society in the contemporary discussion, arguing that none of these succeeds as a general account of the concept. It argues instead that there is no general concept picked out by the expression ‘civil society’: uses of ‘civil society’ are theory-laden such that they can only be understood from within the theoretical, practical, and historical contexts in which they originated. This article concludes by arguing that the idea of civil society still retains critical value, provided that the theorist locates it in a particular context.