1. Perhaps the clearest account of this change has been provided by Nancy Fraser in: Unruly Practices,University of Minnesota Press, 1989, esp. chpts 7 and 8. The concept of ‘politicisation of needs’ is borrowed from her work.
2. It is impossible to footnote here even the most significant contributions to the contemporary debate on civil society, but one of the most recent and most systematic defences and elaborations of this concept and its transformations can be found in Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato: Civil Society and Political Theory, MTT 1992.
3. I briefly addressed some aspects of this diversified history in two of my earlier papers: ‘Constitution and Functioning of the Civil Society in Poland’, B. Misztal (ed.): Poland After Solidarity,Transaction Books, 1985, and `Formation and Restructuration of Civil Society: Is there a General Meaning in the Polish Paradigm?’, International Review of Sociology XXI/1–3, 1985. Important insights into this history of the concepts are offered by the already mentioned work of Cohen and Arato.
4. Zygmunt Pelczynski: `Solidarity and the “Rebirth of Civil Society” in Poland, 1976–1981’, in John Keane (ed.): Civil Society and the State, Verso, 1988, p. 364. A more elaborate argument is provided by Pelczynski in his Introduction to the volume edited by him: The State and Civil Society, Cambridge U.P., 1984.
5. Originally published in 1962, it has been translated into English and published by MIT Press only quite recently, in 1989.