Contract, Culture, and Citizenship

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “Where Justice Is Called a Virtue”: Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes

2. Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke

3. Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke

4. Rousseau’s Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government

5. John Rawls, Public Reason, and Transformative Liberalism Today

Conclusion: The Politics of Not Settling Down

Bibliography

Index

“Button’s book remains an original and important investigation into the history of civic education in the social contract tradition. Political theorists will find much that is of interest here.”

—Anna Stilz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews