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Contract, culture, and citizenship : transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls
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Contract, culture, and citizenship : transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls

Author: Mark E Button
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mark E Button
ISBN: 9780271033815 0271033819 9780271033822 0271033827
OCLC Number: 192045690
Description: x, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "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.
Responsibility: Mark E. Button.
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"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.

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