Anti-civil

Origin

From .

Full definition of anti-civil

Adjective

1. (rare) Uncivil(ised) and in opposition to civil society; opposed to or lacking the features of civil society (for example, opposing or simply lacking civil liberties).
• 1905-1909, Matthew Arnold, Essays... to see the Antonines as they really were;—one may concede that the point of view from which Christianity appeared something anti-civil and anti-social, ...
• (later quoted in Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism by Richard Dellamora, 1990): ... since the sect at the time “appeared something anti-civil and anti-social” Arnold then proceeds to fashion the emperor as the exemplar of a masculinized ...
• 1971, Gottfried Dietze, In Defense of Property, ... then the latter, by definition, can't be civil. They might even be anti-civil or a-civil. They must be incompatible with civilization. But this is simply not the case. As was shown, ...
• 1999, Bruce Robbins, Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress“Civil-society theory,” Jeffrey Alexander argues, “despite the extraordinary self-consciousness of philosophers like Cohen and Walzer, seems unable to theorize empirically the demonic, anti-civil forces of cultural life that it normatively proscribes. ...”
• 2000, Leonhard Praeg, African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy: a philosophical investigation, In w
• 2006, Jeffrey C. Alexander, The Civil SphereJews were not stigmatized simply because they were held to be anti-Christian, but because their Jewish qualities were constructed as dangerous for civil society itself. ... What was insisted on, above all, was the allegedly anti-civil clannishness of Jews...