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Abendroth, Wolfgang, 251

Abertura , 5253

Abortion, 554555, 558, 729 n126

Absolutist state, 92, 120, 122, 183, 191, 203, 242

in early modern conceptual history, 8687

Foucault's conception of, 261, 274275

Habermas's conception of, 216218, 443444

Koselleck's conception of, 206208

Action

Arendt and two models of, 647 n10

public, 178179, 302, 306

strategic, 512513, 520

teleological, 520521

See also Action repertoire; Collective action ; Communicative action

Action repertoire, 504505

Administration, government as, 231, 464

Arendt's conception of, 183, 192193

and democracy, 644 n108

Foucault's conception of, 274, 282, 285

Habermas's conception of, 252253

Luhmann's conception of, 312, 314, 321

See also Bureaucracy and bureaucra-tization

Adorno, Theodor W., 242, 243, 244, 245, 408, 453, 457

Advertising, 245246

Althusser, Louis, 159161

American Revolution, 184, 195

American society

Arendt's conception of, 184, 185, 188, 191, 194197, 595598

Parsons's conception of, 118, 134137, 142

Anarchism, 38

Anderson, Perry, 161164, 173

Anonymity, 186, 288, 335

Antinuclear movement, 580, 586587

Antisittlichkeit , 93, 9596, 97

Antistatism, 1115, 30. See also Liberalism; Neoconservatism; Statism

Anti-Vietnam war movement, 580, 738 n60, 738 n63

Apathy, political, 18, 166, 324, 325, 460

and elite theorists, 608 n11

See also Depoliticization

Apel, Karl-Otto, 349, 370

Aquinas, Thomas, 85

Arendt, Hannah, 7, 174, 299, 308, 359, 412, 421

and civil disobedience, 593599, 603 [Page 746]

Arendt (continued)

and Foucault, 255, 346

and fusion argument in Habermas's Strukturwandel, 221, 222, 241, 242, 243, 244, 247248, 425

normative critique of civil society by, 177200

and public sphere, 178190, 201, 203, 211, 212

On Revolution , 180, 183, 597

as theorist of direct democracy, 390, 412

Argentina , 49

Argumentation

and discourse ethics, 364367, 372, 382383, 387389 and influence, 486

postconventional structures of, 437438

See also Communication

Aristotle and Aristotelianism, 84, 91, 304305, 386, 411, 451

Associations, voluntary, 2, 23, 24, 29, 39, 48, 62, 230, 346, 436, 451, 500

absence of in Habermas's analysis, 461462, 463

and civil disobedience, 596597

and defense of lifeworld, 472474

and discourse ethics, 411, 412413, 417418

in early modern conceptual history, 8687

in Foucault's view, 274, 280, 290, 293, 294295

and fusion argument in Habermas's Strukturwandel, 242243, 251252, 253

and Gramsci's idea of socialist civil society, 146, 147148, 150155

in Hegel's view, 633 n105

in Luhmann's view, 301, 308, 311, 332, 340

Parsons's conception of, 117, 119, 130131, 133, 135, 136, 140141

See also Estates; Social movements

Austin, John, 125, 353

Authoritarianism, 36, 44, 5253, 63, 346, 412, 490 and discourse ethics, 360374

in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 73, 7879

and fusion argument in Habermas's Strukturwandel, 245, 251, 252

and fusion of civil society and state, 232, 235, 239, 240, 241

and Gramsci's idea of socialist civil society, 155, 156, 161

See also Domination; Elites; Neocon-servatism; Statism; Totalitarianism

Autonomy

and discourse ethics, 381, 386, 356357, 397399, 400404, 411, 413

and liberalism, 89, 211, 226

rejection of by Foucault, 269, 274, 294

and rights thesis, 2122, 356357, 610 n29 threats to, 194195, 244

See also Individualism and individuality; Liberalism; Liberty, negative; Private sphere; Rights

Avineri, Shlomo, 99, 116

Axes, Touraine's social

diachronic, 513514, 516, 519520

synchronic, 514, 516, 519520

B

Bayle, Pierre, 208209

Benjamin, Walter, 178, 292

Bill of Rights, 89, 128, 196, 197, 454, 598

"Binary codes" of power, 541

Biopower, 267, 268, 277, 281282, 283

Blacks, American, 136. See also Civil Rights Movement

Bloch, Marc, 453

Bobbio, Norberto, 72, 145, 149, 154, 159, 164174

Bodin, Jean, 87

Bonapartism, 143, 152 [Page 747]

Bourgeoisie and the bourgeois, 210

bourgeois-constitutional state, 443444 (see also Constitutions and constitutionalism)

in Foucault's view, 258, 259, 260, 277, 281284

and Gramsci's idea of a socialist civil society, 146, 151, 155

and Gramsci's successors, 160, 164, 165

in Habermas's view, 211, 214, 216217, 251, 443, 447

in Hegel's view, 96, 97

in Luhmann's view, 304 in Marx's view, 346

and the public sphere, 221231, 657658 n33, 672 n117, 694695 n94 (see also Public sphere)

See also Capitalism; Liberalism; Marxism and neo-Marxism

Brazil , 49, 50, 52, 53, 55

Breakdown thesis, 463, 499500, 514, 530

Bruni, Leonardo, 85

Brunner, Otto, 86

Budgetary constraints, hard vs. soft, 467468

Bureaucracy and bureaucratization, 15, 57, 130, 166, 212, 235, 277, 301

in Arendt's view, 185186, 187, 597

and fusion argument, 235, 242, 244, 245, 309

in Habermas's view, 242, 244, 245, 404, 439, 445446, 450, 459, 461

in Hegel's view, 99, 102104, 116

See also Administration, government as; Welfare state

Brgerlich (bourgeois), 97

Brgerliche Gesellschaft (civil society), viii, 93, 97, 142, 156, 178, 213, 304

Brgerlicher Stand ,

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Caesarism, 143, 152

Capitalism, 2, 45, 116, 166, 281, 305, 308, 410, 423, 439

Althusser's view of, 160161

and civil society, 160161, 162, 410

democratic, 432433

and Gramsci's idea of socialist society, 143, 147, 148, 149, 155

Habermas's view of, 216, 223

and ideology of second left in France, 37, 40, 42

and Parson's view, 121, 123, 129, 133134, 135, 140, 142

unrestrained, 24, 2930, 76, 129

and welfare state, 1314, 140, 142, 465466

See also Bourgeoisie and the bourgeois; Class struggle; Economic society; Liberal democracy; Liberalism; Neoconservatism; Working class and workers' movement

Cardoso, Fernando H., 5354, 57, 58, 76, 77, 79, 81

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 37

Categorical imperative, 349

Catholic church, and civil society, 144

Center Platform, 82

CFDT labor union, 39

Children, 224, 545

and childrearing, 533537, 722 n71

Chile , 3, 53, 55

Circumstances of justice, 388

Citizenship, 6, 84, 85, 97, 263, 415, 432, 450, 452

and civil disobedience, 569570, 579, 580, 582, 586, 590591, 597598, 601

complex, 127129, 327

Luhmann's conception of, 304, 310, 325, 466

masculine subtext of, 722 n71, 725 n97 (see also Domination: male; Women: subjugation of)

vs. private self, 590591

and public sphere, 220, 223, 224, 228229, 230

and rights, 195

and women's rights, 543, 550, 554 [Page 748]

Citizenship (continued)

See also Homme ; Individualism and individuality; Rights

Citizen society, 90, 97

Citoyen. See Citizenship

City-state, 118. See also Polis

Medieval, 7, 85

Civil disobedience, 173, 438, 564568

and contemporary liberal-democratic theory, 568590

and democratic theory, 568, 590604

and discourse ethics, 355356, 396

and the economy, 736 n37, 740741 n80

''justice-based," $1, 583

nonpersuasive strategies of, 584, 586587

persuasive strategies of, 584 "policy-based," $1

public, illegal, and nonviolent, 739 n68

self-limitation of, 602603