CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE
SERIES VII, SEMINAR, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 22
General Editor
George F. McLean
Civil society as Democratic Practice
edited by
Antonio F. Perez
Semou Pathé Gueye
Fenggang Yang
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF A THIRD WAY BETWEEN
INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM
Chapter I. Democracy and Human Rights in the Aftermath of the Totalitarian Challenge
Miloslav Bednar
Chapter II. The Global Crisis of Culture and the Prospects for Democratic Process
Levan Dalakishvili
Chapter III. Modeling and Valuing Reality: A Communitarian Perspective
Charles R. Dechert
Chapter IV. Democracy, Rationality and Civil Society
Anatoliy KarasChapter V. The Presence of Ethnicity as a Paradigm for Federal Governance
James K. Kigongo
Chapter VI. Civil Society and International Discourse
Antonio F. PerezPART II. Democracy and civil society:
solidarity and subsidiarity
Chapter VII. Solidarity and Subsidiarity as the Social Exercise of Human Freedom
George F. McLeanChapter VIII. Towards the Idea of Civil Society: Two Understandings of the Principle of Solidarity
Tatiana Sedova
Chapter IX. Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy: Rethinking Politics
Semou Pathé GueyeChapter X. Solidarity and Subsidiarity as the Embodiment of Humanity and the Practice of Humanism
Wei Zhang
Chapter XI. Transforming the Socio-Cultural Hierarchy to Develop an Equitable "Civil Society"
Elinor Brown
Chapter XII. Husserl’s Phenomenology and Bohr’s Quantum Theory in Relation to the Art of Fiction and Democratic Society
Mamuka G. DolidzePART III. METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS BASIS
FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AS DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE
Chapter XIII. Civil Society and the Role of Christianity in China: A Preliminary Reflection
Fenggang YangChapter XIV. Christian Values and Modern Bulgarian Culture
Georgi Kapriev
Chapter XV. Civil Society, Solidarity and Social Reformation in the Sufi Perspective
Sirajul IslamMallika Rajaratnam
Chapter XVII. Civil Society: A Transpositional Understanding
Asha MukherjeeChapter XVIII. National Consciousness, Multiculturalism and Democratic Citizenship: Value Phenomena in the Formation of the Moral Identity of a Personality
Martin Zilinek