Virtuous Citizens

Demonstrates how contemporary manifestations of civic publics trace directly to the early days of nationhood  The rise of the bourgeois public sphere and the contemporaneous appearance of counterpublics in the eighteenth century deeply influenced not only how politicians and philosophers understood the relationships among citizens, disenfranchised subjects, and the state but also how members of the polity understood themselves. In Virtuous Citizens : Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency