西方思想家“市民社会”论评析

在当代西方社会发展中,市民社会重新获得人们的青睐,一方面,源于在历史上市民社会中的资产阶级曾经是争取民主的主要力量,市民社会与民主似乎具有天然的相关性,另一方面,则源于在理论上重新把握当代西方新社会运动的迫切要求。当代西方社会运动的发展是市民社会概念复兴的社会基础。在西方,由于当代社会运动的平民无产阶级性质,重新复兴的"市民社会"具有非传统市民社会性质,是某种新形态的"市民社会",明确这一点,或许对我国今天的社会建设能有一些启迪。

Comment on Western Ideologists' Civil Society

In contemporary western social development,civil society has regained the popularity.On one hand,civil society and democracy seem to have natural correlation due to the fact that the bourgeois in the civil society was once the main force for democracy in history.On the other hand,there is an urgent request to theoretically grasp new social movements in contemporary western countries.The development of contemporary western social movements is the social foundation for the renaissance of civil society.In the west,because of the civilian and proletarian nature of contemporary social movements,the revived "civil society" has a nontraditional civil society nature,hence it is a new form of "civil society".With this to be clear,it might shed light on our construction of today’s society.