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Friends, citizens, strangers : essays on where we belong / Richard Vernon.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vernon, Richard, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Alexander Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social participation.
- Political participation.
- Citizenship--Social aspects.
- Citizenship.
- Citizenship--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Friends, Citizen, Strangers proposes a solution: a moderate form of cosmopolitanism that finds a place for multiple levels of attachment and association.
- Contents:
- Neighbourhood and conscience in Locke
- Why is Rousseau difficult?
- Mary Wollstonecraft: stoic, republican, feminist
- Auguste Comte's cosmopolis of care
- 'In rooms adjoining': George Eliot and the proximate other
- 'Proudhonism': or, citizenship without a city
- J.S. Mill's religion of humanity
- Henri Bergson and the moral possibility of nationalism
- What is crime against humanity?
- On special ties (1): Jesus or Polemarchus?
- On special ties (2): what do we owe?
- Conclusion: on associative duties.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-99193-7
- 9786611991937
- 1-4426-7506-3
- OCLC:
- 244767921
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