Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons(English, Paperback, Sievers Bruce R.)

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Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons(English, Paperback, Sievers Bruce R.) is written by Sievers Bruce R. and published by University Press of New England. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1584658959 (ISBN 10) and 9781584658955 (ISBN 13).

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.