What is Citizenship?
Publisher
:
Gallimard
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782070411894
Description
The term "citizenship" is out of favor. Deemed passé 20 years ago, today it is a new talisman brandished to support almost any sort of claim. Yet the term has a precise historical meaning: belonging to an autonomous political community, and denotes both rights and duties. The great political traditions have interpreted it differently in relation to matters of individuality, nationality, religious beliefs, social inequality, and historical and community traditions. Dominique Schnapper investigates the history, the ideology, and the sociology of "citizenship" in this work which is in itself a veritable contemporary manual of civics.
Author
Christian Bachelier : Historian Christian Bachelier is the editor of Raymon Aron, Une Histoire du XXème siècle (Plon, 1996), among other works.
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