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Reviving the Social Compact - Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics (Hardcover)
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Reviving the Social Compact - Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy
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Naomi Zack's Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in
an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social
upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship
between citizens and government. Politics has become turbo-charged
as a form of agonistic contest where candidates and the public
become more focused on winning than on governing or holding the
government accountable for the benefit of the people. This failure
of the government to fulfill its part of the social contract calls
for a new social compact wherein citizens as a collective whole
make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions.
Analyzing present and evolving events, Zack reveals how race has
exceeded intersection after formal rights have failed to correct
ongoing discrimination; how class is no longer based on real life
interests and has been manufactured and manipulated for political
contest; how women have made spectacular progress but how the fame
of elite women has left out poor, non-white women, transgender
people, and sex workers; how natural disasters have not been (and
perhaps cannot be) adequately prepared for or responded to by
government; how environmental preservation becomes politicized; how
homelessness could be fixed through capitalism; and how immigration
reform has pivoted from inclusion to expulsion and why hospitality
is an important civic virtue. Reviving the Social Compact is a call
for good citizenship. Voting is the first step-because in a divided
two-party system, a change from one party to the other is
tantamount to revolution-and a new understanding of the social
compact can lead to the stable civic life we need at this time.
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