Description

Civic virtues, public service, and personal sacrifice and responsibility have again become vital questions for Americans struggling with the moral and political problems of citizenship. In Cultivating Citizens Dwight Allman and Michael Beaty bring together some of America's leading social and political thinkers to address the question of civic vitality in contemporary American society. The resulting volume is a serious reflection on the history of civil society and a rich and rewarding conversation about the future American civic order.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: Citizenship and Soulcraft
Part 2 Cultivating Citizens as Historical Problem
Chapter 3 Cicero, Citizenship, and Epicurean Temptation
Chapter 4 Soulcraft, Citizenship, and Church-Craft: The View from Hippo
Chapter 5 From Moral Virtue to Material Benefit: Dominium and Citizenship in Late Medieval Europe
Chapter 6 Lockean Liberalism and the Cultivation fo Citizens
Part 7 Cultivating Citizens as Contemporary Problem
Chapter 8 Who Are We? Taking Stock of the Culture
Chapter 9 Higher Education and the Cultivation of Citizenship
Chapter 10 Citizenship, Faith, and Christian Higher Education
Chapter 11 Have Americans Lost their Virtue?
Chapter 12 Liberalism, Consumerism, and Citizenship

Product details

Published Dec 11 2002
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 194
ISBN 9780739104521
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 236 x 160 mm
Series Applications of Political Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Dwight D. Allman

Anthology Editor

Michael D. Beaty

Contributor

Alexander Astin

Contributor

Nathan Tarcov

Contributor

Alan Wolfe

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