Civil society is embedded in the private-public lordship tension

Evidence

Civil society, Mbembe rightly insists then, is deeply embedded in the longstanding tensions between “private lordship and public lordship,” between “the affairs of individuals” and “public affairs.” — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 217

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s structure still rests on the public-private separation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 44; Private law governs relations among private citizens and organizations. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 152