Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons - Brossura

Sievers, Bruce R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1584658959 ISBN 13: 9781584658955

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of New England, 2010

Riassunto

Among the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century is that of sustaining a healthy civil society, which depends upon managing the tension between individual and collective interests. Bruce R. Sievers explores this issue by investigating ways to balance the public and private sides of modern life in a manner that allows realization of the ideal of individual freedom and, at the same time, makes possible the effective pursuit of the common good. He traces the development of civil society from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic and the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment, analyzes its legacy for modern political life, and explores how historical trends in the formation of civil society and philanthropy aid or impede our achievement of public goods in the modern era.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

BRUCE R. SIEVERS is a visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University and adjunct professor at the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco.

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Book by Sievers Bruce R

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of New England
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1584658959
• ISBN 13: 9781584658955
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 205