Cultivating Citizens

Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America
Herausgeber: Allman, Dwight D.; Beaty, Michael D.

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Produktbeschreibung

In Cultivating Citizens Dwight Allman and Michael Beaty bring together some of America's leading social and political thinkers to address the question of civic vitality in contemporary American society. The resulting volume is a serious reflection on the history of civil society and a rich and rewarding conversation about the future American civic order.

Produktdetails

• Applications of Political Theory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780739104538
• ISBN-10: 0739104535
• Artikelnr.: 21184835

Autorenporträt

Dwight D. Allman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. Michael D. Beaty is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: Citizenship and Soulcraft Part 2 Cultivating Citizens
as Historical Problem Chapter 3 Cicero, Citizenship, and Epicurean
Temptation Chapter 4 Soulcraft, Citizenship, and Church-Craft: The View
from Hippo Chapter 5 From Moral Virtue to Material Benefit: Dominium and
Citizenship in Late Medieval Europe Chapter 6 Lockean Liberalism and the
Cultivation fo Citizens Part 7 Cultivating Citizens as Contemporary Problem
Chapter 8 Who Are We? Taking Stock of the Culture Chapter 9 Higher
Education and the Cultivation of Citizenship Chapter 10 Citizenship, Faith,
and Christian Higher Education Chapter 11 Have Americans Lost their Virtue?
Chapter 12 Liberalism, Consumerism, and Citizenship