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No. 5. "Invoking Civil Society," Charles Taylor, 1990. In recent years, the notion of civil society has come back into
circulation. The intention is to invoke something like the concept which
developed at the turn of the nineteenth Century, which stands in
contrast to 'the state'. But in fact those who introduced it were trying
to articulate features of the development of Western civilization which
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