The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship In A Fractured Age

by Mark Kingwell

2021-05-27 07:36:44

What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism-when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to be... Read more
What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism-when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to belong; it also makes concrete the ethical commitments of care and respect. Political and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell 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, he takes a long look at what citizenship has meant in the past and what it means today. Less

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ISBN9780742512665
Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, and has written for publications ranging from Adbusters and the New York Times t...

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