Public Philosophy in a New Key

by James Tully

• ISBN13: 9780521728799
• ISBN10: 0521728797
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political struggle today. These volumes represent a genuine landmark in political theory from the author of Strange Multiplicity, one of the most influential and distinctive commentaries on politics and the contemporary world published in recent years. This first volume of Public Philosophy in a New Key consists of a presentation and defence of a contextual approach to public philosophy and civic freedom, and then goes on to study specific struggles over recognition and distribution within states.

Author Biography

James Tully is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xii
Credits	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Public philosophy and civic freedom: a guide to the two volumes	p. 3
Approaching Practice	p. 13
Public philosophy as a critical activity	p. 15
Situated creatively: Wittgenstein and political philosophy	p. 39
To think and act differently: comparing critical ethos and critical theory	p. 71
Democracy and Recognition	p. 133
The agonistic freedom of citizens	p. 135
Reimagining belonging in diverse societies	p. 160
Multinational democracies: an introductory sketch	p. 185
Indigenous Peoples	p. 221
The negotiation of reconciliation	p. 223
The struggles of Indigenous peoples for and of freedom	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 289
A new field of democracy and civic freeom	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 317
Index to Volume I	p. 357
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