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Contract, culture, and citizenship : transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls / Mark E. Button.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Button, Mark E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social contract.
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores the concept of the social contract and how it shapes citizenship. Argues that the modern social contract is an account of the ethical and cultural conditions upon which modern citizenship depends"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Where justice is called a virtue" : public reason and civic formation in Thomas Hobbes
- Compact before liberal constructivism : the divine politics of John Locke
- Governing subjects and breeding citizens : dilemmas of public reasoning and public judgment in Locke
- Rousseau's contractarian republic : the culture of constitutional self-government
- John Rawls, public reason, and transformative liberalism today
- Conclusion : the politics of not settling down.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271056623
- 0271056622
- 9780271049069
- 0271049065
- OCLC:
- 781848911
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