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Making citizens : Rousseau's political theory of culture /
By analyzing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterizes the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects political life by either fostering or discouraging civic virtue....
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | By analyzing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterizes the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects political life by either fostering or discouraging civic virtue. However, while the cultural institutions Rousseau endorses would motivate citizens to obey the law, they would not prepare citizens to help frame it. Rousseau's view of culture thus works against his account of legitimacy, and Trachtenberg concludes that Rousseau's political theory as a whole is inconsistent. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415040639 9780415040631 0203024281 9780203024287 9786610331802 6610331804 1134953658 9781134953653 1280331801 9781280331800 0203324994 9780203324998 |