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Civil Society A Concept for Comparative Historical Research

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If one wants to write the history of the concept “civil society” during the last two hundred years, one has to take into account the historical differences of the societies in which the term appeared and on which their conceptual and linguistic resources to some extent depend. As Krishan Kumar has stated it:

“If we wish to continue to use the concept of civil society, we must situate it in some definite tradition of use that gives it a place and a meaning” (Kumar, 1993: 390)

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Reichardt, S. (2004). Civil Society A Concept for Comparative Historical Research. In: Zimmer, A., Priller, E. (eds) Future of Civil Society. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80980-3_4

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