Civil Society as an Ethical Challenge (Paradoxes of the Creation of the Public Sphere in Post-Totalitarian Poland)
Civil Society as an Ethical Challenge (Paradoxes of the Creation of the Public Sphere in Post-Totalitarian Poland)

Summary/Abstract: The author describes the meaning of the idea of civil society for the abolition of the totalitarian communist regime in Central Europe. He pays a special attention to the character of a public sphere under that regime, totally under control of the state, as well as to the agents of the opposition (such as the Solidarity movement) and their struggle for liberation and creation of a new democratic public life in Poland. The focus is laid on the ethical motivation of political transformation of relations between private and public. Trust and justice should lead the social reform and penetrate all spheres of social and political activity. The ethically based idea of civil society has been serving also as a blueprint for reconstruction of public sphere in Poland after 1989.

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