About the Book: Civil Society and Modern Politics
This revised is a critical study of conflict and compromise between civil
society and modern politics. Throughout this edition an attempt has been made to
enact freedom in contemporary civil societies beyond struggles of interest,
identity and power continues to be largely frustrated for reasons that are first
illustrated in Marxs early writings. These reasons have created the inherent
problems in attempting to mediate civil freedom of contract, property and the
regulation of exchange with political freedom of assembly, expression, suffrage
and equality before the law. It also attempts to recapitulate the relevance of
Kant, Hegel, Marx, Benjamin, Arendt