The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society

by Edward Shils, Steven Grosby

Overview

Edward Shils was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century. In these nine essays, he explores the importance of civility and tradition to a free society. The essays’ significance is enormous, for Shils was one of the first and assuredly one of the most courageous writers to examine the nature of civility and civil society and their relation to a free, ordered, liberal democratic society.

Edward Shils (1910–1995) was Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Steven Grosby is an Associate Professor at Clemson University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865971486
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/30/1997
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1,10.5,24_Introduction vii
Editor's Note xiii
Acknowledgments xv Observations on Some Tribulations of Civility 3
Ideology and Civility 25
Civility and Civil Society: Good Manners Between Persons and Concern for the Common Good in Public Affairs 63
Tradition and Liberty: Antinomy and Interdependence 103
The Antinomies of Liberalism 123
Nation, Nationality, Nationalism and Civil Society 188
Max Weber and the World Since 1920 225
The Modern University and Liberal Democracy 268
The Virtue of Civility 320
Principal Works of Edward Shils 357 Index 361