Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challenge of a third way between individualism and collectivism -- Democracy and human rights in the aftermath of the totalitarian challenge / Miloslav Bednar -- The global crisis of culture and the perspectives for democratic process / Levan Dalakishvili -- Modeling and valuing reality: a communitarian perspective / Charles R. Dechert -- Democracy, rationality and civil society / Anatoliy Karas -- The presence of ethnicity as a paradigm for federal governance / James K. Kigongo -- Civil society and international discourse / Antonio F. Perez -- Democracy and civil society: solidarity and subsidiarity -- Solidarity and subsidiarity as the social exercise of human freedom / George F. McLean -- Towards the idea of civil society and two understandings of the principle of solidarity / Tatiana Sedova -- Public sphere and deliberative democracy: rethinking politics / Semou Pathé Gueye -- Solidarity and subsidiarity as embodiment of humanity and practice of humanism / Zhang Wei -- Transforming social-cultural hierarchy: to develop an equitable "civil society" / Elinor Brown -- Husserl's phenomenology and bohr's quantum theory in relation to the art of fiction and democratic society / Mamuka G. Dolidze -- Metaphysical and religious basis for civil society as democratic practice -- Civil society and the role of Christianity in China: a preliminary reflection / Fenggang Yang -- Christian values and modern Bulgarian culture / Georgi Kapriev -- Civil society, solidarity and social reformation: in the Sufi perspective / Sirajul Islam -- Epistemology, transcendental understanding and social change: suggestions for social and political culture / Mallika Rajaratnam -- Civil society: a transpositional understanding / Asha Mukherjee -- National consciousness, multiculturalism and democratic citizenship: the value phenomena in the formation of the moral identity of a personality / Martin Zilinek.