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Contract, Culture, and Citizenship - Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,026
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Contract, Culture, and Citizenship - Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (Paperback): Mark E. Button

Contract, Culture, and Citizenship - Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (Paperback)

Mark E. Button

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In a beautifully written, persuasively argued book, Button offers a new account of the modern liberal tradition of political thought. --D. Casson, Choice. ""Button argues that 'contract makes citizens,' rather than vice versa. He provides no less than a reexamination of the major texts in social contract theory--including those of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau--emphasizing the importance within this tradition of a 'transformative' and deeply educative project. An excellent book: fresh, original, clearly written and cogently argued, and based on an impressively wide array of sources. This book deserves a wide readership."" --Stephen Macedo, Princeton University.The idea of the social contract has typically been seen in political theory as legitimating the exercise of governmental power and creating the moral basis for political order. Mark Button wants to draw our attention to an equally crucial, but seldom emphasized, role for the social contract: its educative function in cultivating the habits and virtues that citizens need to fulfill the promises that the social contract represents. .In this book, he retells the story of social contract theory as developed by some of its major proponents--Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls--highlighting this constructive feature of the theory in order to show that not only do citizens make the social contract, but the social contract also makes citizens. .Button's interest in recovering this theme from past political theory is not merely historical, however. He means to resurrect our concern for it so that we can better understand the political-institutional and cultural-ethical conditions necessary for balancing individual freedom and common citizenship in our modern world of moral pluralism. Drawing on the history of public reason, Button shows how political justification continues to depend upon an ethics of character formation and why this matters for citizens today.

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Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2010
First published: October 2010
Authors: Mark E. Button
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-03382-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN: 0-271-03382-7
Barcode: 9780271033822

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