Contract, culture, and citizenship : transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls /
Mark E. Button.
- x, 269 páginas
Incluye bibliografía.
´Where justice is called a virtue´ : public reason and civic formation in Thomas Hobbes -- Compact before liberal constructivism : the divine politics of John Locke -- Governing subjects and breeding citizens : dilemmas of public reasoning and public judgment in Locke -- Rousseau´s contractarian republic : the culture of constitutional self-government -- John Rawls, public reason, and transformative liberalism today -- Conclusion : the politics of not settling down.
´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.