자유주의 시민사회론을 넘어서

• 영문명: Beyond the Liberal Conception of Civil Society
• 발행기관: 한국세계문화사학회
• 저자명: 조승래(Seung-Rae Cho)
• 간행물 정보: 『세계역사와 문화연구』제17집, 1~21쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 역사학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to criticize the liberal conception of civil society. Liberals, including neo-liberals today, have a strong dichotomy of civil society and state. Their ideology presupposes civil society as the sphere where politics ends and the market relationships operate spontaneously by its own rules. This libertarian interpretation emphasizes the privateness of civil society where individuals can pursue their interests without any public control and interference. This incurs disastrous polarization, of which remedy is to be possible by another thinking of civil society. This paper discusses the possibility by investigating the representative critics of liberalism such as Michael Walzer and Charles Taylor. Their positive definitions of civil society have in its core a strong political postulation which requires us to regard civility not as private refinement but as civic vigilance. They assert only this civility help us to overcome the domination of market which colonizes our life-world. Therefore their practical aim is to revitalize civil society s constitutive power of associational life of participant citizens. Adam Ferguson s discourse of civil society in the context of eighteenth-century civic republicanism is to be read as intellectual background of this sort of the positive conception of civil society.

목차

Ⅰ. 머리말

Ⅱ. 시장 대 시민사회

Ⅲ. 애덤 퍼거슨의 공화주의적 시민사회론

Ⅳ. 맺음말

키워드

civil society 시민사회 Charles Taylor 찰스 테일러 Michael Walzer 마이클 왈저 Adam Ferguson 애덤 퍼거슨 Liberalism 자유주의