The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

By Mark Kingwell

Book Overview

What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism-when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to belong; it also makes concrete the ethical commitments of care and respect. Political and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell traces the history of the idea of citizenship, and argues for a new model for the next century. In the style of Michael Ignatieff's The Needs of Strangers, he takes a long look at what citizenship has meant in the past and what it means today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512665
• ISBN13: 9780742512665
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.8" x 6.2"