TY  - BOOK
AU  - Villa,Dana
AU  - Arendt,Hannah
AU  - Mill,John Stuart
AU  - Nietzsche,Friedrich
AU  - Strauss,Leo
AU  - Weber,Max
TI  - Socratic Citizenship
SN  - 9780691218175
U1  - 323.6/01 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alcibiades
KW  - Berlin, Isaiah
KW  - Callicles
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Euben, Peter
KW  - Goldman, Harvey
KW  - Good Life
KW  - Grote, George
KW  - Habermas, Jürgen
KW  - Hegel, Georg
KW  - Heidegger, Martin
KW  - Kant, Immanual
KW  - Kraut, Richard
KW  - Machtstaat
KW  - Melian Dialogue
KW  - Reformation
KW  - Renaissance science
KW  - Socratic method
KW  - agonistic politics
KW  - bad conscience
KW  - conformism
KW  - disillusion
KW  - diversity of opinion
KW  - morality of mores
KW  - namos
KW  - natural right argument
KW  - nihilism phenomenon
KW  - open discussion model (Mill)
KW  - philosopher-kings
KW  - philosophical alienation
KW  - plural voting scheme
KW  - slave morality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE What Is Socratic Citizenship? --; CHAPTER TWO PUBLIC OPINION, MORAL TRUTH, AND CITIZENSHIP --; CHAPTER THREE MORALITY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND POLITICS The --; CHAPTER FOUR CONFLICT, INTEGRITY, AND THE ILLUSIONS OF POLITICS --; CHAPTER FIVE CITIZENSHIP VERSUS PHILOSOPHY --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville's ''nation of joiners'' seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of citizenship or the responsibilities of self-government. In response, the critics urge community involvement and renewed education in the civic virtues. But what kind of civic engagement do we want, and what sort of citizenship should we encourage? In Socratic Citizenship, Dana Villa takes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. He argues that we need to place more value on a form of conscientious, moderately alienated citizenship invented by Socrates, one that is critical in orientation and dissident in practice. Taking Plato's Apology of Socrates as his starting point, Villa argues that Socrates was the first to show, in his words and deeds, how moral and intellectual integrity can go hand in hand, and how they can constitute importantly civic--and not just philosophical or moral--virtues. More specifically, Socrates urged that good citizens should value this sort of integrity more highly than such apparent virtues as patriotism, political participation, piety, and unwavering obedience to the law. Yet Socrates' radical redefinition of citizenship has had relatively little influence on Western political thought. Villa considers how the Socratic idea of the thinking citizen is treated by five of the most influential political thinkers of the past two centuries--John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. In doing so, he not only deepens our understanding of these thinkers' work and of modern ideas of citizenship, he also shows how the fragile Socratic idea of citizenship has been lost through a persistent devaluation of independent thought and action in public life. Engaging current debates among political and social theorists, this insightful book shows how we must reconceive the idea of good citizenship if we are to begin to address the shaky fundamentals of civic culture in America today
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