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Civil and Uncivil Societies
The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal...
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Civil and Uncivil Societies is an episode from The Reith Lectures: Archive 1976-2012 by BBC. The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary purpose is to preserve and trans...
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Published Jul 10, 2012, 57:01 long, audio available.
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The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he asks if the modern state is quietly killing civil society in the Western world? And what can non-Western societies do to build a vibrant civil society? Producer: Jane Beresford.
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