The parent as citizen [electronic resource] : a democratic dilemma / Brian Duff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duff, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenthood.

Parents.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When leaders and citizens in the United States articulate their core political beliefs, they often do so in terms of parenthood and family. But while the motives might be admirable, the results of such thinking are often corrosive to our democratic goals. In The Parent as Citizen , Brian Duff reveals how efforts to make the experience of parenthood inform citizenship contribute to the most persistent problems in modern democracy and democratic theory. Duff explains how influential theories of democratic citizenship rely on the metaphor of parenthood to help individuals rise to the challenges

Contents:

Introduction : the parent and the citizen

Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue

The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest

Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child

Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet

Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4728-7

0-8166-7507-4

OCLC:

701103935