Jason Andrew Neidleman

The General Will Is Citizenship

Inquiries Into French Political Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

In The General Will is Citizenship, Jason Neidleman advances a republican conception of citizenship, which is described and defended through a piercing analysis of the general will in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, leaders of the French Revolution, and Restoration-era liberals. Neidleman explains that the "general will" is the will members of society have qua citizen, as opposed to the will they have qua private individual. It encapsulates tensions fundamental to egalitarian politics--tensions between individual autonomy and the collective good, between voluntarism and virtue, between popular will and rational will.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rlpg/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780742507883
• ISBN-10: 0742507882
• Artikelnr.: 38495390

Autorenporträt

By Jason Andrew Neidleman

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The State of Citizenship in Contemporary Democratic Theory
Chapter 2 The General Will: Rousseau's Procedural Argument Chapter 3
Rousseau and the Viability of Democratic Citizenship Chapter 4 The General
Will in the French Revolution: Principles of Political Right Chapter 5 The
General Will in the French Revolution: Creating Citizens Chapter 6 Limiting
Sovereign Power: Benjamin Constant and Nineteenth Century French Liberalism
Chapter 7 Tocqueville and the Compatibility of the Particular and the
General Chapter 8 Conclusion: Citizenship as the General Will