Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State

by Anna Stilz

Book Overview

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. In Liberal Loyalty, Anna...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691150222
• ISBN13: 9780691150222
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"