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 of politics, and demonstrates that this reliance has
unintended consequences. When parenthood is imagined to instill
confidence in political virtue, it uncovers insecurity. When
parenthood is believed to inculcate openness to change, it produces
fundamentalism. Duff develops this argument through original
readings of four theorists of citizenship: Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Rorty, and Cornel West-readings that
engage the ways in which these theorists incorporated their
personal history into their political thought. In showing how
problems that plagued canonical theorists of citizenship still
trouble contemporary thinkers and citizens alike, Duff's insights
are deeply relevant to present-day politics.
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