The world we want : restoring citizenship in a fractured age
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The world we want : restoring citizenship in a fractured age
, 2001
1st Rowman & Littlefield ed
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Originally published: Toronto : Viking, 2000
Includes index
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Description
What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism-when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to belong; it also makes concrete the ethical commitments of care and respect. Political and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell traces the history of the idea of citizenship, and argues for a new model for the next century. In the style of Michael Ignatieff's The Needs of Strangers, he takes a long look at what citizenship has meant in the past and what it means today.
Table of Contents
Part 1 The World We Have Part 2 Rights and Duties Chapter 3 The Perfect Citizen Chapter 4 The Evil of Banality Chapter 5 Hope's Imagination Part 6 Virtues and Vices Chapter 7 A Friendship Chapter 8 Challenges to Virtue Chapter 9 The Pact of Civility Part 10 Spaces and Dreams Chapter 11 In the Arcades Chapter 12 Postcultural Identities Chapter 13 Places to Dream Part 14 The World We Want
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