Liberal Loyalty Freedom, Obligation, and the State

Name: Liberal Loyalty Freedom, Obligation, and the State
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ISBN: 9780691150222

ISBN-10: 0691150222

ISBN-13: 9780691150222

Edition: 2009

Authors: Anna Stilz

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Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic obligations only by reaching beyond liberal principles and invoking the importance of national culture. InLiberal Loyalty, Anna Stilz challenges both views by defending a distinctively liberal understanding of citizenship.Drawing on Kant, Rousseau, and Habermas, Stilz argues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Anna Stilz is assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.



Preface



Equal Freedom and the State



Introduction



Authority



Democracy



Political Obligation and Justice



Solidarity and Allegiance



Freedom and Culture in Rousseau



Nationalism or Patriotism?



Democracy as Collective Action



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index