Mark Button is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

“Button argues that ‘contract makes citizens,’ rather than vice versa. He provides no less than a reexamination of the major texts in social contract theory—including those of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—emphasizing the importance within this tradition of a ‘transformative’ and deeply educative project. An excellent book: fresh, original, clearly written and cogently argued, and based on an impressively wide array of sources. This book deserves a wide readership.”—Stephen Macedo, Princeton University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.“Where Justice Is Called a Virtue”: Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes2.Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke3.Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke4.Rousseau’s Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government5.John Rawls, Public Reason, and Transformative Liberalism TodayConclusion: The Politics of Not Settling DownBibliographyIndex

Mark Button is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

“Button argues that ‘contract makes citizens,’ rather than vice versa. He provides no less than a reexamination of the major texts in social contract theory—including those of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—emphasizing the importance within this tradition of a ‘transformative’ and deeply educative project. An excellent book: fresh, original, clearly written and cogently argued, and based on an impressively wide array of sources. This book deserves a wide readership.”—Stephen Macedo, Princeton University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.“Where Justice Is Called a Virtue”: Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes2.Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke3.Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke4.Rousseau’s Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government5.John Rawls, Public Reason, and Transformative Liberalism TodayConclusion: The Politics of Not Settling DownBibliographyIndex

Mark Button is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

“Button argues that ‘contract makes citizens,’ rather than vice versa. He provides no less than a reexamination of the major texts in social contract theory—including those of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—emphasizing the importance within this tradition of a ‘transformative’ and deeply educative project. An excellent book: fresh, original, clearly written and cogently argued, and based on an impressively wide array of sources. This book deserves a wide readership.”—Stephen Macedo, Princeton University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.“Where Justice Is Called a Virtue”: Public Reason and Civic Formation in Thomas Hobbes2.Compact Before Liberal Constructivism: The Divine Politics of John Locke3.Governing Subjects and Breeding Citizens: Dilemmas of Public Reasoning and Public Judgment in Locke4.Rousseau’s Contractarian Republic: The Culture of Constitutional Self-Government5.John Rawls, Public Reason, and Transformative Liberalism TodayConclusion: The Politics of Not Settling DownBibliographyIndex