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Squaring the circle: The problem of motivation in democratic thought (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Juergen Habermas).

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Title/Author:	Squaring the circle: The problem of motivation in democratic thought (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Juergen Habermas).
Author:	Stilz, Anna Brewer.
Description:	429 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Richard Tuck; Nancy Rosenblum; Sharon Krause.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4172.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194461
ISBN:	9780542392627

Squaring the circle: The problem of motivation in democratic thought (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Juergen Habermas).
Stilz, Anna Brewer.

Squaring the circle: The problem of motivation in democratic thought (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Juergen Habermas). - 429 p.

Advisers: Richard Tuck; Nancy Rosenblum; Sharon Krause.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Although this view of freedom is broadly shared by both Rousseau and Kant, I argue that Rousseau's is the more appealing version of the two. Unlike Kant, Rousseau holds that the only kind of state which could have the legitimate authority to define reciprocal limits to our choices in this manner must be a democratic one. But Rousseau's view also involves a controversial claim: he believes that the citizens of a democracy must share certain political motives in order to exercise legitimate authority over one another. In this dissertation, I attempt to critically examine and evaluate this thesis: is some motivational bond between citizens necessary to make their practice of democratic political authority possible? And if so, what kind of bond should this be?

ISBN: 9780542392627Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Squaring the circle: The problem of motivation in democratic thought (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Juergen Habermas).
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520 # $a Rousseau's own account of political education has been thought by some to entail the view that a culturally freighted patriotism is a necessary prerequisite for democratic politics. To assess this view, I examine Jurgen Habermas's attempt to rehabilitate Rousseauian democratic theory without relying on ascriptive cultural commonalities to ground the unity of the state. Finally, I end by offering my own theory of how democratic political unity might be grounded purely in the practice of citizenship, rather than in an appeal to the cultural nation.
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