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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Duff, Brian. Parent as citizen. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010036536 (OCoLC)658813650 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Duff |
ISBN: | 9780816675074 0816675074 9781452947280 1452947287 |
OCLC Number: | 701103935 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : the parent and the citizen -- Monsters in the garden : Rousseau on politics and parental virtue-- The tragedy of birth : Nietzsche on parenthood and political contest -- Troubled inheritance : Richard Rorty and the metaphysics of the child -- Deadbeat citizens : Cornel West and the parent as prophet -- Conclusion : exposing the citizen as parent. |
Responsibility: | Brian Duff. |
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"The Parent as Citizen is superb. Brian Duff has pulled off quite an accomplishment: he takes what seems like a peripheral issue to political theory-the question of parenting-and shows how it infiltrates into the heart of political issues, with corrupting and troublesome effects. Duff shows that parenthood is as much a symptom of as it is the solution to the ills of society. To pose it as some kind of perfect remedy is in fact to preserve the problems of society in the guise of curing them." -James Martel, San Francisco State University Read more...

