Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa

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Takes 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.

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Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa

"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

Dana Villa teaches political theory at the University of California. Santa Barbara. He is the author of Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt and Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (both Princeton) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt.

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ISBN 13	9780691086934
ISBN 10	0691086931
Title	Socratic Citizenship
Author	Dana Villa
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2001-08-19
Number of pages	392
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa

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