Making Citizens: Rousseau's Political Theory of Culture
Routledge (1993)
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By analysing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterises the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects political life by either fostering or discouraging civic virtue. However, while the cultural institutions Rousseau endorses would motivate citizens to obey the law, they would not prepare citizens to help frame it. Rousseau's view of culture thus works against his account of legitimacy, and Trachtenberg concludes that Rousseau's political theory as a whole is inconsistent
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| Keywords | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques |
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| Call number | JC179.R9.T73 1993 |
| ISBN(s) | 0415040639 9780415040631 9780203024287 9781134953653 9781134953646 9781134953608 9781134953622 0415040639 |
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