Author: Yeatman, Anna

Source: Citizenship Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, February 2007 , pp. 105-115(11)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Considerations of citizenship of whatever kind demand an idea of citizenship. There cannot be an idea of citizenship without an account of the subject of citizenship. This paper argues that the subject of citizenship is "the individual" considered as an integrated unit of organic and subjective life. It is this idea of the individual that is the referent for the idea of self-preservation in early modern civil philosophy. It is difficult to appreciate the significance of "self-preservation" without using the vantage point of post-Freudian accounts of the self to open it up. Citizenship concerns the status of the human being considered as a person (a self). Citizenship also denotes the public aspect of individualism as this is instituted and secured through the agency of the state (considered in its republican sense as the state subject to law).

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621020601099948

Affiliations: 1: Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

Publication date: 2007-02-01

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