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