Demands of Citizenship

by Catriona McKinnon and Iain Hampsher-Monk

Book Overview

Since the seventeenth century liberal thinkers have been interested in the rights of individuals and their capacities to engage as free equals in the political activity of their community. However, as many in the republican tradition have noted, the maintenance of certain types of communities - predicated on broadly shared ethical expectations, modes of communication and patterns of activity - is a precondition of the meaningful exercise of citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826477550
• ISBN13: 9780826477552
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"