Idea of Civil Society

"One of the merits of Adam Seligman's wide-ranging, probing, and deeply reflective inquiry into the history and uses of the idea of civil society is that it is concerned explicitly with identifying the ambiguities in its applications to contemporary societies....In one aspect Mr. Seligman's book is an exploration of the idea of civil society in all its con-temporary and historical ironies and ambiguities, one that is richly learned and subtly reasoned. In another it is a question mark over the very idea of a civil society."Seligman, Adam B. is the author of 'Idea of Civil Society' with ISBN 9780691010816 and ISBN 0691010811.