| Contents |
Possibilities of justice -- Real civil societies : dilemmas of institutionalization -- Bringing democracy back in : realism, morality, solidarity -- Discourses : liberty and repression -- Communicative institutions : public opinion, mass media, polls, associations -- Regulative institutions (1) : voting, parties, office -- Regulative institutions (2) : the civil force of law -- Contradictions : uncivilizing pressures and civil repair -- Social movements as civil translations -- Gender and civil repair : the long and winding road through m/otherhood -- Race and civil repair (1) : duality and the creation of a black civil society -- Race and civil repair (2) : the civil rights movement and communicative solidarity -- Race and civil repair (3) : civil trauma and the tightening spiral of communication and regulation -- Race and civil repair (4) : regulatory reform and ritualization -- Integration between difference and solidarity -- Encounters with the other -- The three pathways to incorporation -- The Jewish question : anti-semitism and the failure of assimilation -- Answering the Jewish question in America : before and after the Holocaust -- Conclusion : civil society as a project. |
