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The Parent as Citizen by Brian Duff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Brian Duff

Current price: $38.99
The Parent as Citizen by Brian Duff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Parent as Citizen by Brian Duff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Parent as Citizen by Brian Duff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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When leaders and citizens in the United States articulate their core political beliefs, they often do so in terms of parenthood and family. But while the motives might be admirable, the results of such thinking are often corrosive to our democratic goals. In The Parent as Citizen, Brian Duff reveals how efforts to make the experience of parenthood inform citizenship contribute to the most persistent problems in modern democracy and democratic theory. Duff explains how influential theories of democratic citizenship rely on the metaphor of parenthood to help individuals rise to the challenges of politics, and demonstrates that this reliance has unintended consequences. When parenthood is imagined to instill confidence in political virtue, it uncovers insecurity. When parenthood is believed to inculcate openness to change, it produces fundamentalism. Duff develops this argument through original readings of four theorists of citizenship: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Rorty, and Cornel West-readings that engage the ways in which these theorists incorporated their personal history into their political thought. In showing how problems that plagued canonical theorists of citizenship still trouble contemporary thinkers and citizens alike, Duff's insights are deeply relevant to present-day politics. | The Parent as Citizen by Brian Duff, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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