Contract, Culture, and Citizenship : : Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls / / Mark E. Button.
The idea of the social contract has typically been seen in political theory as legitimating the exercise of governmental power and creating the moral basis for political order. Mark Button wants to draw our attention to an equally crucial, but seldom emphasized, role for the social contract: its edu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 "Where Justice Is Called a Virtue": Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes
- 2 Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke
- 3 Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke
- 4 Rousseau's Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government
- 5 John Rawls, Public Reason, and Transformative Liberalism Today
- Conclusion: The Politics of Not Settling Down
- Bibliography
- Index