The status of citizenship, or more accurately, citizenship, is not one, but many, corresponding to the manifestations of freedom, which constitutes its essential foundation.

We distinguish three fundamental forms of citizenship: incomplete citizenship, which defines the citizen of the state and is found in pre-representative or intermediary political systems.

Simple citizenship pertains to the citizen of the city-state and reflects the representative political system, where the status of principal is attributed to the citizen.

Full citizenship defines the citizen of democracy who cumulatively enjoys individual, social, and political freedom or autonomy.

Finally, in the phase of the post-state-centric world, cosmopolitanism is encountered. The concept of the cosmopolitan simultaneously defines the citizen of the city and the citizen of the cosmopolis.

Thus, the citizen of modernity is an incomplete citizen, a subject of the state, but not a citizen of the city-state.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]