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Slovník pojmů: Občanská společnost

Joseph Grim Feinberg (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought III, no. 1 (2019): 307–319

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Keywords: Civil society, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Gramsci, Ernest Gellner

In the latest installment of our ongoing "conceptual dictionary," Joseph Grim Feinberg offers a brief history of how the notion of civil society transformed from a critical concept employed to grasp a contradictory feature of bourgeois society, to an affirmative ideological feature of post-Communist discourse.

doi: 10.46957/con.2019.1.27

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