World We Want - Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Award-winning author Kingwell traces the idea of citizenship from its roots in ancient Greece to the contemporary realities of consumerism and cultural banality.

List of contents

The World We have; Rights and Duties; The Perfect Citizen; The Evil of Banality; Hope's Imagination; Virtues and Vices; A Friendship; Challenges to Virtue; The Pact of Civility; Spaces and Dreams; In the Arcades; Postcultural Identities; Places to Dream; The World We Want.

About the author

Mark Kingwell is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and an award winning political and cultural theorist. A prolific journalist, he writes regularly for such publications as Utne Reader, New York Times Magazine, and Harper's. Kingwell has published five books including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac, Marginalia: A Cultural Reader, and the Canadian bestseller Canada: Our Century.

Summary

This book traces the history of the idea of citizenship, and argues for a new model for the next century. In the style of Michael Ignatieff's The Needs of Strangers, Kingwell takes a long look at what citizenship has meant in the past and what it means today.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Kingwell, Kingwell Mark
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2002
• EAN: 9780742512665
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1266-5
• No. of pages: 257
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship