Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

by Michael A. Kaplan

Book Overview

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. However, liberal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817316892
• ISBN13: 9780817316891
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"