this brings us to the heart of our differences with the neoconservative model of civil society. the neoconservative slogan, "society against the state," is often based on a model in which civil society is equivalent to market or bourgeois society. another version of this approach does, however,recognize the importance of the cultural dimension of civil society. we have serious objections even to this second version,whose strategies for unburdening the state are aimed in part at the institutions involved in the formation and transmission of cultural values (art,religion,science) and in socialization (families,schools). an important component of the neoconservative thesis of "ungovernability" is the argument that the excessive material demands placed by citizens on the state are not only to welfare institutions themselves but also to our modernist political,moral,and aesthetic culture. the latter allegedly weakens both traditional values and the agencies of social control(such as the family) that tempered hedonism in the past. in this view, we need to resacralize our political culture,revive faltering traditional values such as self-restraint,discipilne,and respect for authority and achievement, and shore up "nonpolitical" principles of order (family,property,religion,schools),so that a culture of self-reliance and self-restraint replaces the culture of dependency and critique.