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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810706703321

Autore

Vernon Richard <1945->

Titolo

Friends, citizens, strangers : essays on where we belong / / Richard Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-281-99193-7

9786611991937

1-4426-7506-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Alexander Lectures

Disciplina

302/.14

Soggetti

Social participation

Political participation

Citizenship - Social aspects

Citizenship - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Neighbourhood and conscience in Locke -- Why is Rousseau difficult? -- Mary Wollstonecraft: stoic, republican, feminist -- Auguste Comte's cosmopolis of care -- 'In rooms adjoining': George Eliot and the proximate other -- 'Proudhonism': or, citizenship without a city -- J.S. Mill's religion of humanity -- Henri Bergson and the moral possibility of nationalism -- What is crime against humanity? -- On special ties (1): Jesus or Polemarchus? -- On special ties (2): what do we owe? -- Conclusion: on associative duties.

Sommario/riassunto

Friends, Citizen, Strangers proposes a solution: a moderate form of cosmopolitanism that finds a place for multiple levels of attachment and association.