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Book SynopsisTakes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. This book 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.
Trade Review"An exceptional book, well written and instructive at every point."--Choice "This book deserves a wide, appreciative readership, both for the importance of the argument and for the depth and breadth of the interpretations that support it."--Gerald Mara, American Political Science Review "Villa has put his finger on the tension to which liberals and deliberative democrats will have to devote ever more attention, and he has written an informative and stimulating book."--Cillian McBride, Philosophy in Review
Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Chapter One What is Socratic Citizenship? 1 Chapter Two John Sturat Mill: Public Opinion, Moral Truth, and Citizenship 59 Chapter Three Friedrich Nietzsche: Morality, Individualism, and Politics 125 Chapter Four Max Weber: Conflict, Integrity, and the Illusions of Politics 186 Chapter Five Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: Citizenship versus Philosophy 246 Conclusion 299 Notes 311 Index 355
