The Will to Empower : : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects /

The Will to Empower : : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects / / Barbara Cruikshank.

How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection. Dra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Cruikshank, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1999
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Small Things
  • 1. Democratic Subjects
  • 2. The Liberal Arts of Governance
  • 3. The Will to Empower: Technologies of Citizenship and the War on Poverty
  • 4. Revolutions Within: Self-Government and Self-Esteem
  • 5. Welfare Queens: Ruling by Number
  • Conclusion: Iteration
  • Notes
  • Index

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