ISBN:
9780816672721
,
9780816672738
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 287 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Parent as Citizen : A Democratic Dilemma
DDC:
306.87401
Keywords:
Citizenship
;
Parents
;
Parenthood
;
Citizenship
;
Parenthood
;
Parents
;
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Abstract:
When leaders and citizens in the United States articulate their core political beliefs, they often do so in terms of parenthood and family. But while the motives might be admirable, the results of such thinking are often corrosive to our democratic goals. In The Parent as Citizen , Brian Duff reveals how efforts to make the experience of parenthood inform citizenship contribute to the most persistent problems in modern democracy and democratic theory. Duff explains how influential theories of democratic citizenship rely on the metaphor of parenthood to help individuals rise to the challenges o
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the parent and the citizenMonsters 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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