ABSTRACT
Third, notions of civility that are increasingly attached to civil society, while enabling a certain form of civil life, also contribute to a narrowing of the political agenda and the exclusion of certain actors and voices. Many have noted the early association of civil society with a "civilized" state of human existence, established in contrast with a primitive or barbarous "state of nature."31 Though civility is no longer established by explicit reference to a "state of nature," a parallel contrast remains operative.
