Postmodernity and civil society

…‘postmodernity’ has emerged as a sociological analysis of the world in which we live. In this world of shrinking government and market dominance, civil society has experienced a renaissance as a public space in which political and social discourse can flourish, away from the gaze of the state and outside the consumer culture of the market, with its insatiable, if ephemeral, satisfactions. Both Left and Right lay claim to the idea of civil society and view it as a future prescription for social policy with or without the state.

F. Powell