The ethos of a late-modern citizen /

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Author / Creator:White, Stephen K., author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009.
©2009
Description:1 online resource (xii, 135 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Citizenship.
Staatsbürger
Ethos
Politisches Denken
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
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Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226200
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ISBN:9780674054813
0674054814
9780674032637
0674032632
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-131) and index.
In English.
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Summary:In this book, Stephen K. White contends that Western democracies face novel challenges demanding our reexamination of the role of citizens. White offers an incisive interpretation of our late-modern ethical-political condition and explains how a distinctive "ethos," or spirit, of citizenship might constitute part of an exemplary response. This ethos requires reworking basic figures of the modern political imagination, including our conception of the self, citizenship, and democratic politics. White argues that the intense focus in the past three decades on finding general principles of justice for diversity-rich societies needs to be complemented by an exploration of what sort of ethos would be needed to adequately sustain any such principles. He proposes that Western citizens adopt an ethos that is defined by such virtues as (moral) attentiveness, self-restraint, and existential gratitude.
Other form:Print version: White, Stephen K. Ethos of a late-modern citizen. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674032637
Standard no.:10.4159/9780674054813