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Pojmovno određenje političke zajednice
Defining political community

Author(s): Michal Sládeček
Subject(s): Political Theory, Civil Society, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: pluralism; community; liberalism; communitarianism; republicanism; legitimacy; civil society;

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the concept of political community, its constitution and value. The starting point is that the concept of community is not sufficiently recognized in modern political theories, as well as in contemporary liberal theory. In the last two decades communitarian and republican political theory attempted to revitalize this notion. The first part of the paper elaborates on the polemics between these three theoretical orientations. The concluding part examines the possibilities and prospect for stable political community in conditions of pluralism of particular social communities and ethnoculural heterogeneity.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 19-20
  • Page Range: 179-191
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian