These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate the signi

According to conventional wisdom, government may intervene when private markets fail to provide goods and services that society values. This view has led to the

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judi

Papers presented at the Workshop: the Public and the Private Democratic Citizenship in a Comparative Perspective, held at New Delhi during 2-4 November 2000.

Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the co