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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