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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introducation: Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society -- Part- I -- Chapter 1: Civil Society as Idea and Ideal -- Chapter 2: Equality and Civil Society -- Chapter 3: Classical Liberalism and Civil Society -- Part- II -- Chapter 4: Does Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society? -- Chapter 5: A Critical Theory of Civil Society -- Part- III -- Chapter 6: Christianity and Civil Society -- Chapter 7: Natural Law and Civil Society -- Part- IV -- Chapter 8: The Jewish Tradition and Civil Society

Pluralist democratic systems, according to Philipe Braud, do not do what they claim to do, but rather, serve to channel, diffuse, or reconcile society's conflicts. As one reviewer of the original French edition notes, the book can be seen as part of a long tradition in European political thought that sees democracy as a front for capitalism.||Braud asserts that pluralist democracy is credible only because of the complete failure of communism. There is no government by the people; the rule of law is a tautology. What fundamental changes occur happen because of the forces of economics, culture