The Idea of Second Society

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The Idea of Second Society

• Formation of Civil Society in the Socialist Era
• 18.9.2007
• Katalin Miklóssy

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Antipolitics-Discourse

• Vaclav Havel The Power of the Powerless, 1978
• György Konrád Antipolitics, 1984
• Milan Kundera The Tragedy of Central Europe,
  1984
• Adam Michnik Letters from the gdanks Prison,
  1985

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Defining First Society

• Homogenous, atomized
• Hierarchic, vertically organized
• Centralized, controlled, dominated by the
  political sphere
• Ideologized
• Transparent, public
• The only legitimate

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Second Society

• Second economy (Aslund, Berend, Kornai)
• Second publicity (Rupnik, Skilling-Precan,
  Schöpflin)
• Second culture (Michel, Tomka, Skilling, Ramet)
• Second consciousness (Habermas, Braudel, Hankiss)

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Channels of Interest Implementation
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