Introduction: cities and civil society / John Keane -- Civil society in historical perspective / Jurgen Kocka -- Corporate responsibility and historical injustice / Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis -- The faces of social inequality / Paul Nolte -- Civil society: desperate wishful thinking? / Herfried Munkler -- Transformations of German civil society: milieu change and community spirit / Hans Joas and Frank Adloff -- Civility, violence and civil society / Sven Reichardt -- Is there, or can there be, a 'European society'? / Claus Offe -- Social movements challenging neoliberal globalization / Dieter Rucht -- Entangled histories: civil society, caste solidarities and legal pluralism in post-colonial India / Shalini Randeria -- The temptations of unfreedom: Erasmus intellectuals in the age of totalitarianism / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Notes on contributors.
