Contract, culture, and citizenship
Subtitle: transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls
By: Mark E. Button.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780271033815
Subjects: Social contract; Political science -- Philosophy -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Where justice is called a virtue" : public reason and civic formation in Thomas Hobbes; title: Compact before liberal constructivism : the divine politics of John Locke; title: Governing subjects and breeding citizens : dilemmas of public reasoning and public judgment in Locke; title: Rousseau's contractarian republic : the culture of constitutional self-government; title: John Rawls, public reason, and transformative liberalism today.