Zev M. Trachtenberg

Making Citizens (eBook, PDF)

Rousseau's Political Theory of Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134953653
• Artikelnr.: 42827840

Autorenporträt

Zev M. Trachtenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-Political success and the general Will
The fundamental problem in politics
The general will
The commonality of the general will 1 An analysis of political failure 3 Society as it is-and as it could be 5 Culture and political success 6 Culture and legitimacy.