The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought - Image 1

£85.00

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought

Name: The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Price: 85.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

France

Price data last checked 93 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£85 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 24 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 638 days • 638 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 638 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £85 (638 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £85 - £85

Price levels: 1 different prices over 638 days

Description

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. Essential to the general will is its foundation in a conception of civic virtue, roughly understood as the subordination of private interests to the common good. Rather than appeal to universal reason or natural law, theorists of the general will look to the formation of citizens as the only way to secure justice and legitimacy, they attend to the social and cultural prerequisites to the flourishing of those principles. Consequently, all of the theorists studied in The General Will is Citizenship are concerned with the viability of democratic regimes and principles, as well as with the philosophical justification of those principles themselves. From within the framework of this dual emphasis, Neidleman constructs a picture of citizenship that both engages contemporary democratic theory and illuminates some of the more important changes and continuities in the French political tradition. Review A remarkably valuable book.-- "French History"The ambitious scope of this book makes for a satisfying read.-- "History of Political Thought"The General Will is Citizenship is a splendid study on Rousseauean themes; it is intelligent, careful, and uncommonly well written. All Rousseau scholars are deeply in his debt.--Patrick Riley, author of The General Will before Rousseau About the Author Jason Andrew Neidleman is currently a visiting professor of political science at DePaul University.

Product Specifications

Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0742507882
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 November 2000
Listed Since: 10 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The General Will in the Modern Constitutional State (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)

Rousseau and Radical Democracy (Continuum Studies in Philosophy): 37

Paul Ricoeur: The Promise and Risk of Politics (20th Century Political Thinkers)

To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic

Making Citizens: Rousseau's Political Theory of Culture

The Complete Citizenship Resource File: A Comprehensive Programme for Years 7-11

The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions: 15 (Studies in the History of Political Thought, 15)

Taylored Citizenship: State Institutions and Subjectivity

Citizenship between Past and Future

Rousseau, Law and the Sovereignty of the People

Sovereignty Across Generations: Constituent Power and Political Liberalism

Rousseau and Revolution (Continuum Studies in Political Philosophy)

Citizenship and Wars: France in Turmoil 1870-1871

The Rousseauian Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds)

The Psychology of Global Citizenship: A Review of Theory and Research

Rethinking Citizenship Education: A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)

Good Citizenship and Educational Provision

The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics

Philosophie de Rousseau

Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism)

City-State Civism in Ancient Athens: Its Real and Ideal Expressions

Good Citizenship and Educational Provision

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (Modernity and Political Thought)

Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law