Trust And The Problem Of Civil Society
Trust And The Problem Of Civil Society

Summary/Abstract: One of the most impossible tasks I find in teaching is to get students to realize just how fragile is social order: its mutability, fragility and labile nature is something that is hard to convince students of. The aura of “givenness” is so strong as to elicit all the skill of poetics, drama, rhetoric and analysis to break through to them. Interestingly, I have found this case not only in the USA, but also in places like Jerusalem and Budapest where one would think students would be more sensitive to just how much social order is indeed not “given” at all. If this mutability and fragility is a property of all order, how much more so when [...]

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